HP HPOM Reference

Note: HP renamed the product called now HP operations manager way too many times. Also it is very inconsistent with using abbreviations. Here we will assume that the term "HP Operations manager" and abbreviations HPOM, OMU, and HPOM  mean the same thing :-)

There are two interfaces to HPOM -- Admin GUI and operator GUI.

To access the Admin GUI for the first time open your browser and point it to the address where HP HPOM is installed.

For HTTP the default port is 9662 and for HTTPS it is 9663.

• for unencrypted access use HTTP:// HPOM-Server:9662

• for encrypted access use HTTPS:// HPOM-Server:9663

In your browser you should see the login screen. Enter your login name and password

• The initial user name is admin (on Linux) and opc_admin (on HP-UX)

• The default initial password after the installation is secret

Checking health of the server

• List running processes: ovc

• To Start the HPOM  management server process: ovc -start
• To Stop the HPOM management server process ovc -stop
• To start aborted process (for example, opcmsgm): ovc -start opcmsgm
• To check licences: /opt/OV/bin/OMUlicense -r -p HPOM

Source  ov.envvars script located in HPOM's bin directory (normally /opt/OV/bin).

These scripts are named ov.envvars.csh, ov.envvars.sh, etc. (that is, ov.envvars followed by the name of the shell you're using). When you run the appropriate script for your shell, it defines environment variables such as $OV_BIN, $OV_MAN, and $OV_TMP, which point to the OpenView bin, man, and tmp directories, respectively.

Thus, you can easily go to the directory containing OpenView's manual pages with the command cd $OV_MAN. These environment variables are used  in all of OpenView's documentation.

Commands to Manage Policies:

ovpolicy (/optiOV/bin) Installs, manages, and removes policies on both local and remo{e nodes

Key options:

-list -view policies, policy version, and current status

-enable I -disable [-polname I -poltype]

opcpolicy (/opt/OV/bin/OpC/utils) Manage and maintain policies and policy groups

Deploy Policies/Templates from the Command Line

opcragt -distrib -templates -actions -monOMUrs hostname

Checking currently deployed templates/policies

You can look at the current templates/policies deployed to a remote node by using:

ovpolicy -l -host

Or from the localhost:

ovpolicy -l

There can be special  node groups that are not intended for use with responsibilities. These node groups are flagged as Invisible Node Groups and will not appear in any responsibility matrix. That can make responsibilities matrix more compact.

Commands

• call_sqlplus.sh— Run an SQL*Plus report using the HPOM database

• install— Install commands

• HPOM_op— HPOM   Operations Java UI

• opc— graphical user interface for HPOM   Operations

• opc_audit_secure— Lock the audit level in the HPOM database

• opc_backup— Back up the HPOM   Operations configuration

• opc_recover— Recover the HPOM   Operations configuration

• opcack— Externally acknowledge active messages of selected operator

• opcackmsg— Externally acknowledge active message

• opcackmsgs— Externally acknowledge active messages with specific message attributes

• opcadddbf— Add a new datafile to an Oracle tablespace

• opcagt — Administer agent services for HPOM   Operations

• opcagtdbcfg— Parse AgentPlatform and perform DB updates

• opcagtreg— Register subagent

• opcannoadd— Add an annotation to a message

• opcauddwn— Download Operations audit entries to a file

• opcaudupl— Upload audit information into HPOM   Operations

• opccfgdwn— Download configuration data from the HPOM database to flat files

• opccfgout— Configure variables for scheduled outage; update the HPOM outage

• opccfgupld— Upload configuration from flat files into the HPOM

• opcdbidx— HPOM   Operations database troubleshooting tool

• opcdbinit— Fill HPOM   Operations database with default configuration

• opcdbinst— Create or destroy HPOM   Operations database

• opcdbpwd— HPOM   Operations database password tool

• opcdbreorg— Re-organize HPOM   Operations database

• opcdbsetup— Create the HPOM DB tables and load the initial configuration

• opcdbupgr— Upgrade the HPOM   Operations database

• opcdcode— View HPOM   Operations encrypted template files

• opcgetcorrevts— Print correlated child events

• opcgetmsgdet— Obtain some message details

• opcgetmsgids— Get current message IDs to an original message ID

• opchbp— Switch HPOM   Operations heartbeat polling

• opchistdwn— Download Operations history messages to a file

• opchistupl— Upload history messages into HPOM   Operations

• opclaygrp --  Maintain layout groups and node hierarchies

• opcmack— Acknowledge a message of HPOM   Operations

• opcmapnode— Find NNM server for a specified node

• opcmgrdist— Distribute HPOM   Operations configuration

• opcmomchk— Check “Flexible Management” configuration files

• opcmon  — Forward monOMUred object value to HPOM   Operations

• opcmsg — Submit a message for HPOM   Operations

• opcnode — Maintain nodes, node groups and template assignments in HPOM

• opcpat— Test program for HPOM   Operations pattern matching

• opcragt— Remotely administer agent processes on HPOM   Operations

• opcseapplmerge— Merge applications and application groups

• opcsebinarymerge— Merge executables

• opcsecfgcheck— Test consistency of data references for HPOM

• opcseldist— Check the syntax of configuration files for selective distribution

• opcsekey— Set login information for HPOM   Operations

• opcservice— Configure services in HPOM   Operations

• opcsesubproductadd— Adding all the HPOM-SE config data

• opcsesubproductdel— Delete a whole subproduct from HPOM

• opcsetempladd— Add template(s) or template group(s) to HPOM

• opcsetempldel — Delete a template(s) or template

• opcsetemplmerge— Merge, add, or delete a template

• opcskm— Secret Key Management Tool

• opcsqlnetconf— HPOM   Operations SQL*Net configuration tool

• opcsv— Administer manager services of HPOM   Operations

• opcsvcconv— Convert service files for HPOM   Operations

• opcsvcdwn— Download Operations service status logs to a file

• opcsvcterm— Terminal access to the HPOM   Navigator

• opcsvcupl— Upload service status logs into HPOM   Operations

• opcsvskm— Secret Key Management Tool

• opcsw - — Set software status in HPOM   Operations database

• opctempl— Maintain templates in files in HPOM   Operations

• opctemplate — Enable or disable HPOM templates

• opctmpldwn— HPOM template download and encryption tool

• opcwall— Inform HPOM Operations users

• ovc

• ovdeploy -- transfere, remove or execute files on remote hosts  

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• To Start the HPOM management server process
• To Stop the HPOM management server process
• To check the HPOM server status

Installation

• To install agent on Unix opc_inst -s <management_server_name>
• To install agent on Windows
  cscript opc_inst.vbs -s <management_server_name>
• To Unistall agent
  opc_inst -r
• To check the agent status
  opcagt status [local agent status]
  opcragt <nodename> [ remote agent status from management server ]
• To Distribute MonOMUr, Action, Commands & Templates
  opcragt -distrib -monOMUr -action -commands -templates -force <node_name>

Adding/deleting nodes

• To add a node to node bank
  opcnode -add_node node_name="<node_name>" node_label="<label>" net_type="NETWORK_IP" mach_type="<Machine_type" group_name="<primary_group_name"
• To delete a node from node bank
  opcnode -del_node node_name="<node_name>" net_type="NETWORK_IP"
• To change the host name or ip address
  /opt/OV/contrib/OpC/opcchgaddr -force -sync IP <OLD_IP> <OLD_HOST_NAME> IP <NEW_IP> <NEW_HOST_NAME>

Test opcmsg
/opt/OV/bin/OpC/opcmsg s=critical o=Test a=Test msg_text="This server is now being monOMUred"

To start the heartbeat polling of managed node
opchbp -start <managed node>

To List Certificates:

• ovcm -listpending -l
  opccsa -list_pending_cr

To grant a certificate
ovcm -grant <certificate_id>

To List and check status of certificates
ovcert -list
ovcert -status

To remove certificated
ovcert -remove <certificate_id>

To create a new certificate request
ovcert -certreq

To list the templates/policies
opctemplate -l or ovpolicy -l

To enable/disable a template
opctemplate -e <template_name>
opctemplate -d <template_name>

To download histroy messages
opchistdwn -older 0s -file <file_location>

To acknowledge messaged
opcackmsg -u <username> <message ID>
opcackmsgs -g <group_name> -n <node_name>

Manual Certificate Deployment From management server a) opccsacm -issue -name <Node Name> -file /tmp/a -pass <password>
From agent
b) ovcert -importcert -file /tmp/a -pass <password>

To get the remote coreid of the agent:
bbcutil -ping http://<nodename>

To change the coreid of a node in the management server
opcnode -chg_id node_name=<node_name> id=<core_id_from_bbcutil>

To list the core id set in the node bank
opcnode -list_id node_list=<node_bank>

To map the node in the node bank to the certificate request
opccsa –map_node <managed_node name>=<nodebank_managed_node_name>

To create a certificate request from the managed node
ovcert -certreq

To create a new core id from the managed node ovcoreid -create -force

To List the set of configurations from agent ovconfget

To change the agent configuration ovconfchg -ns <nodename> -set <param> <value>

To list the groups in node group bank
opcnode -list_groups|grep Name|awk '{print $3}'

To change the communication type
opcnode -chg_commtype node_list=<nodename> net_type=NETWORK_IP comm_type=COMM_BBC

To change the node type
opcnode -chg_nodetype node_list=<nodename> node_type=<node_type> [eg.. MESSAGE_ALLOWED]

To List nodes enrolled in HPOM
opcnode -list_nodes|grep Name|awk '{print $3}'

To view coda collections
codautil -dumpds value

To check DB SPI connection
/var/opt/OV/bin/OpC/monOMUr/dbspicao -p -v -d or /var/opt/OV/bin/OpC/cmds/dbspiadm conncheck -nw

To switch off monOMUring for DB instance
dbspicol OFF <instance_name>

Integrating DBSPI with OVPA [unix] : /var/opt/OV/bin/OpC/cmds/dbspi_mw_int ( For enabling Graphing )
/var/opt/OV/bin/OpC/cmds/dbspi_mw_int -osm .. -udm ( For reporter )

To list open sessions of JAVA and Motif GUIs
checkuiwww

To check OM management server queue files
/opt/OV/contrib/OpC/opcqschk
/opt/OV/contrib/OpC/opcqchk

To create trap template from trapd.conf
ovtrap2opc /etc/opt/OV/share/conf/C/trapd.conf <Template_name> <Service_name>

To check the syntax of flexible management templates
opcmomchk

To list the services opcservice -list

To assign a service to opc user opcservcie -assign <user_name> <service_name>

Oracle start up scripts
/sbin/init.d/OMUracle start/stop
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UNIX Agent recycle :
1. Kill the agent process using : ovc -kill 2. Remove all the files under "/var/opt/OV/log/OpC/"
3. Start the agent process using : ovc -start

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opcdeploy/ovdeploy:
opcdeploy -cmd "<cmd_to_run_at_agent_end>" -node <node_name>
opcdeploy -deploy -file <file_location> -node <node_name> -targetdir <Target_dir> -trd absolute

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SQL Tweaks

To get unassigned nodes to NG in HPOM
select nn.node_name from opc_nodes n, opc_node_names nn
where nn.node_id = n.node_id
and not exists (select 1 from opc_nodes_in_group nig where nig.node_id = nn.node_id);

Show Assignments on Node SELECT OPC_NODE_NAMES.NODE_NAME, OPC_SOURCE_TEMPL.TEMPLATE_NAME FROM OPC_NODE_CONFIG, OPC_NODE_NAMES, OPC_SOURCE_TEMPL WHERE OPC_NODE_CONFIG.NODE_ID = OPC_NODE_NAMES.NODE_ID AND OPC_NODE_CONFIG.TEMPLATE_ID = OPC_SOURCE_TEMPL.TEMPLATE_ID AND OPC_NODE_NAMES.NODE_NAME LIKE 'ENTER NODE NAME HERE';

Show Template Assignment SELECT OPC_NODE_NAMES.NODE_NAME, OPC_SOURCE_TEMPL.TEMPLATE_NAME FROM OPC_NODE_CONFIG, OPC_NODE_NAMES, OPC_SOURCE_TEMPL WHERE OPC_NODE_CONFIG.NODE_ID = OPC_NODE_NAMES.NODE_ID AND OPC_NODE_CONFIG.TEMPLATE_ID = OPC_SOURCE_TEMPL.TEMPLATE_ID AND OPC_SOURCE_TEMPL.TEMPLATE_NAME LIKE 'ENTER TEMPLATENAME HERE';

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Set environment variables in .profile

. /opt/OV/bin/ov.envvars.sh
PATH=$PATH:/opt/OV/bin export PATH

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/opt/OV/contrib/OpC/opcsystst
-a Do everything below
-h Display the hostname
-u Display the uname info
-i Display all configured network interfaces
-l Display the local IP address
-o Display the OpC mgmt server
-n Resolve and display the IP addresses for all displayed node
names and resolve and display the node names for all
displayed IP addresses
-r Display all registered RPC servers

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/opt/OV/bin/OpC/install/opctranm -jobfile <file>

whereas <file> can have for example the following entries:

nodename.domain.com
/tmp/file1 /tmp/file2

=> this will transfer file1 from the management server /tmp directory to /tmp/file2 on the agent nodename.domain.com

nodename.domain.com
!ls

=> this will execute an ls on the unix agent node coco and return the result

nodename.domain.com
!<path>ifconfig /all

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You can use the SQL scripts in the below dir to get reports.

/etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/reports/C/

For ex: call_sqlplus.sh sel_nodes <Fully_qualified_domain_name> --> will give the node details

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OVPA
perfstat -p , -e , -v

/opt/perf/bin/utility -xc /var/opt/perf/alarmdef --> to chk syntax of alarmdef file
/opt/perf/bin/utility -xc /var/opt/perf/parm --> chk parm file

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Directories

/var/opt/OV/share/tmp/OpC/distrib template Distribution directory
/etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv Flexible management templates
/var/opt/OV/share/conf/SPISvcDisc/ Service Discovery xml
/var/opt/OV/log/SPISvcDisc/discovery_error.log Discovery Error Log

Agent Policies
/var/opt/OV/datafiles/policies/configsettings/ --> nodeinfo
/var/opt/OV/datafiles/policies/le/ --> logfile templates
/var/opt/OV/datafiles/policies/mgrconf/ --> MoM templates
/var/opt/OV/datafiles/policies/monOMUr/ --> monOMUr templates
/var/opt/OV/datafiles/policies/msgi/ --> opcmsg templates
/var/opt/OV/datafiles/policies/trapi/ --> SNMP trap templs

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Unix utils

Tar and Untar:
tar -cvf <dir.tar> dir
tar -xvf a.tar

Mounting iso image to HPUX 11.31

mkdir /isoimg lvcreate -n ISOLV -L 3096 /dev/vg00 dd if=isoimage of=/dev/vg00/rISOLV bs=8192 mount /dev/vg00/ISOLV /isoimg

using pfs mount

/usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
/usr/sbin/pfsd &
pfs_mount -o xlat=unix /iso_image.iso /ISO_CDROM/

To change kernel parameters with command line
kctune -K -h <parameter>=<value> [Ex : kctune -K -h maxuprc=3687 ]

To Check the quality pack installed on HPUX
/usr/sbin/swlist | grep -e QPK -e GOLD -e BUNDLE11i

swinstall -s <Source_depot_file> -x autoreboot=false \
-x patch_match_target=true

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