HP and Novell Bring Enhanced Network and System Management to NetWare Environments Through Integration of HP OpenView and Novell ManageWise.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 1996--Delivering on its comprehensive strategy for managing mission-critical LAN environments, Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that HP OpenView now gives users the functionality they have requested to manage Novell NetWare environments.

By integrating HP OpenView with Novell's ManageWise services, customers now are able to monitor and manage Novell NetWare networks from the HP OpenView Solution Framework.

"Our customers want to integrate management of their PC-LANs into their overall enterprise-management solution," said Prem Uppaluru, vice-president and general manager of Novell's Management Products Division. "With this announcement, customers can access ManageWise's LAN management services from their HP OpenView console, enabling enterprise and LAN managers to collaborate on managing and controlling their networks."

"As customers bring more mission-critical applications to their NetWare environments, they increasingly require the kind of integration that HP and Novell can now provide," said Olivier Helleboid, general manager of HP's Network and System Management Division. "As a result of today's announcement, HP and Novell are providing customers with the best way to manage NetWare environments."

Today's announcement includes additional Novell ManageWise integration with HP's industry-leading network-management platform, HP OpenView Network Node Manager; HP's operations- and problem-management solution for network and system operators, HP OpenView IT/Operations; and HP's resource- and performance-management agent, HP MeasureWare.

"The integration of HP OpenView with Novell's ManageWise expands the enterprise administrator's view of the LAN, while the LAN administrator enjoys increased operational flexibility with no increased overhead," said Rich Ptak, director of systems management research at D.H. Brown Associates. "It leverages the existing ManageWise resource and knowledge base while providing enterprise administrators with a more complete view of network status and performance."

NETWORK NODE MANAGER INTEGRATION WITH MANAGEWISE

Currently, IT managers using HP OpenView Network Node Manager are able to monitor NetWare system-configuration information such as user connections, memory and loaded NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) software. In addition to this capability, Novell's ManageWise SNMP NetWare services will integrate with HP's Network Node Manager to allow OpenView operators to detect and isolate more than 400 NetWare server faults.

IT/OPERATIONS INTEGRATION WITH MANAGEWISE

Integration of ManageWise services with HP OpenView IT/Operations provides the ability to manage problems in NetWare environments by using the same consistent process as other heterogeneous environments. By taking full advantage of information on status and availability provided to IT/Operations by ManageWise, OpenView operators can react promptly to alerts from NetWare servers.

In addition, because Novell now will make XConsole available for NetWare users, HP OpenView for UNIX(R) system customers will have access to the NetWare system console. Additionally, managers can use SNMP to reconfigure their NetWare server parameters.

MEASUREWARE NOS CONNECTIVITY MODULE INTEGRATION WITH MANAGEWISE

Introduced today, the HP MeasureWare NOS Connectivity Module allows customers to monitor and maintain resource and performance levels for users in Novell NetWare environments. IT operators using MeasureWare Agents and PerfView Analyzer in heterogeneous environments are now able to bring Novell NetWare servers under the central control of one resource- and performance-management solution.

The MeasureWare NOS Connectivity Module allows users to proactively manage Novell NetWare server performance by examining real time information and long-term trends on parameters that include CPU utilization, volume usage and wait times for print-job queues. By integrating with Novell's NetWare management agent, data can be stored locally from one day to one year in real time, and performance thresholds can be set for 24 different server trends.

Since the MeasureWare Agent now is integrated with IT/Operations, the MeasureWare NOS Connectivity Module can send alarms to IT/Operations to alert systems administrators of a pending performance problem. The MeasureWare NOS Connectivity Module is currently available.

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