Micro Focus OpenView [EOL] Reviews

It's a fairly robust, infrastructure-type monitoring. It gives you a framework and lets you implement custom code, which can work well. It has some pretty good documentation, although not all aspects are as well done as I would like. It’s also extensible.

Because it generally meets our needs on the whole, I’m fairly satisfied.

We have a fairly big IT department with different teams being on different calls. We use OpenView to watch databases, apps, Windows servers, and node servers. Even though it’s not monitoring application health directly, it still sends notifications to let teams know what's happening.

It just makes it possible for the on-call tech to relax and wait for stuff to notify them of problems instead of having to, over the weekend, constantly sign in. It babysits for them, when we code it right.

A single pane of glass (one GUI to monitor health of the entire enterprise) is the holy grail of enterprise monitoring and management and HP Operations excellently provides that for applications, systems and networks.

I have seen these products implemented successfully in more than 30 companies to provide timely enterprise service requirements that minimize or prevent system down time.

• Application logs
• Oracle/SQL-based systems monitoring

Application log monitoring.

The intelligent agents which allows for detailed instruction sets to be deployed to systems.

It is proactive in heading off failures that would be catastrophic to the business.

The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use.

It provides us the flexibility for integration with BPV.

It enables configuration management and allows you to control your IT assets.

It supports efficiency and a speedy resolution of issues. In terms of configuration management, it allows you to identify down to the lowest/smallest component that you wish. You can identify all of the configuration items and all of the assets that make up your digital infrastructure. This allows you to identify components that need to be replaced in a timely fashion, thus helping efficiency. It provides for better management of information.

Network Node Manager is good and so is Operations Manager, although they are a bit archaic now.  Also valuable are the RTSM Agent, agent-less monitoring, SPI, and integrations.

Lots. Consumes too many servers for installation. Why separate products for agent/agentless, licensing simplification.

It has a flexible, enterprise-scale monitoring system.

It has improved infrastructure alerting.