Following IBM's launch of the latest Lotus Domino server last month, Hewlett-Packard is coming to market with an OpenView smart plug-in and enhancements to ManageX, its enterprise systems management solution.
The announcements, which form part of HP's greater OpenView 'application quality of service' initiative, are expected to impact strongly on the South African market. Greater Domino application availability and operational efficiency will be a boon to the growing customer base, says Gary de Menezes, software business manager at HP southern Africa.
"Messaging and collaboration - and the greater goal of knowledge management - are increasingly important to OpenView customers. It therefore makes good sense for HP to offer enhanced management capabilities for enterprise-wide deployments of Lotus Domino and Notes."
The Domino/Notes smart plug-in for OpenView provides proactive monitoring of Notes services, event logs, queues and performance statistics to identify and isolate problems before they affect the end user.
"Decreasing the number of events that administrators have to handle, centralising the process and streamlining the deployment procedures will lead to lower costs and higher efficiency - one of the key objectives for any IT department," says de Menezes.
Additional features and benefits include the following:
Measurement of mail and replication statistics - allows for proper configuration and operation of mail routing and replication;
Monitor Notes database response time - allows IT administrators to maintain and measure service level agreements on Lotus Notes services; and
Server resource usage graphing - allows for real-time and historical viewing of application performance.
From an OpenView ManageX 4.0 standpoint, the product's Health Monitors now support the latest Domino/Notes 5.0 release.
"It is easier for diagnostics to be carried out on the Domino server thanks to ManageX's improved reporting facility. Additionally, a Web-based event browser simplifies the correlation of Domino/Notes events and performance statistics with those of the Windows NT operating system," says de Menezes.
The plug-in is slated for released in Q2.
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