HP Openview anyone?

[Jim Mozley]

Emre Bastuz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I´d like to add some FreeBSD machines to an HP Openview managment system.
> 
> AFAIK there are Windows and Linux node agents available but I could not find any
> for FreeBSD.
> 
> What are you guys doing when it comes to adding FBSD boxes to the managment
> system?

My knowledge is a little out of date but for what it's worth it probably 
depends on what HP-OV product you are talking about...

It its network node manager then you would want your FreeBSD box to run 
an snmp agent and import the MIB into NNM. Then set-up polling and data 
collection for appropriate MIB values.

OTOH if it is what used to be called ITO, that has remote agents, then 
AFAIK there are no FreeBSD agents. As ITO includes NNM you could adopt 
the approach of using SNMP. An alternative would be to perform tests 
using an ITO agent as a proxy, for instance checking for free disk space 
using SSH.

HTH,

Jim Mozley