HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Oracle Rdb on OpenVMS 
    
Product brief 

The HP OpenView Smart Plug-in (SPI) for Oracle Rdb helps administrators 
efficiently monitor distributed enterprise-wide Rdb Database environments 
from a central, best-in-class console. The SPI helps you increase Rdb 
availability and performance and lower the overall cost of maintaining your 
Oracle Rdb databases. To maximize your return on investment, HP 
provides high-quality software services that address all aspects of your 
software application life-cycle needs and align with your business goals. 

The OpenView SPI for Rdb has the same structure as the Database SPIs for 
the other database products (Oracle, Sybase, Informix and MS SQL).  The 
metrics that are monitored are many of the ones monitored by the Online 
Analysis section of Rdbs RMU SHOW STATISTICS tool.

Key features and benefits 

	 Proactively reduce Rdb database down time  The Rdb 
	SPI - with more than 40 predefined event conditions that are easily 
	deployed to Rdb instances - works to proactively identify database 
	problems before they affect end-users. 
	
	 Get answers, not just data  The Rdb SPI informs 
	administrators of the tasks to perform to optimize their Rdb database 
	environment. Rather than providing thresholds for raw data such as 
	Synchronous Reads, the SPI provides thresholds for ratios and 
	percentages so administrators know which commands or actions to 
	subsequently use. 

	 Facilitate fast recoveries  The Rdb SPI reduces mean time to 
	recovery (MTTR) through intuitive instructional text available to the 
	operator with the notification of the problem.

The HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Rdb helps administrators 
efficiently monitor distributed enterprise-wide Rdb environments from 
a central, best-in-class console. 


     Other benefits 

	 Flatten the learning curve  The Rdb SPI is configured and 
	operated through the familiar interfaces of the HP OpenView 
	Operations family, enabling operators to confidently assume routine 
	database monitoring activities without learning a new management 
	paradigm. 

	 Delegate without losing control  The Rdb SPI allows database 
	and IT administrators to precisely configure each database operators 
	environment.
 
	 Monitor without intrusion  The Rdb SPI adopts a hands-off, non-
	intrusive approach to monitoring and does not create objects or 
	interfere with the databases being managed.
 
	 Efficiently transfer change management tasks  The Rdb SPI 
	allows administrators to configure events to page or e-mail a database 
	administrator, who in turn can launch a web-based event browser from 
	any location to drill down to the problem details. 

The Rdb SPI increases database availability and performance, lets 
administrators visualize capacity shortages and trends, and 
consequently lower the overall cost of maintaining the Rdb 
environment. 

Product Functionality Overview 

The HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Rdb brings market-leading HP 
OpenView management and control capabilities to Rdb environments. It 
enables you to perform business-centric service management, event 
management and performance monitoring on your Rdb environment, in 
support of your critical business processes by monitoring many of the same 
conditions as Rdbs RMU Show Statistics tool. 

Event /Action 
	
	HP OpenView Operations monitors key operational activities and 
	events to ensure always on availability. It checks key settings and 
	notifies the operator if they are not set in the way that delivers the best 
	performance on AlphaServer and Integrity Systems, for example: 

	*	the status of asynchronous pre-fetch

	*	whether an adequate number of after-image journals exists

	*	whether the database is configured as a single-file database
 		rather than a multi-file database

	*	whether the AIJ Backup Server (ABS) is able to function

	*	whether Emergency AIJ creation is enabled

	*	whether row cache is enabled
	 

Performance 

The OpenView SPI for Rdb monitors many critical Rdb database areas, for 
example:
 
	*	Buffer Analysis such as local and global buffer effectiveness

	*	Transaction Analysis such as the verb rollback percentage

	*	AIJ Analysis such as the after-image journal throughput, whether the 
		ARB pool has been exhausted, whether an adequate number of ARBs 
		are being formatted in the background
 
	*	RUJ Analysis such as the average number of synchronous write 
		operations to the RUJ file and the average number of file extension 
		operations 

	*	Recovery Analysis of process failure and database recovery 
		performance such as number and duration of Database Recovery 
		(DBR) processes

	*	Record Analysis of storage and retrieval performance such as page 
		discard rates, SPAM page fetch rates, and the average number of 
		fragmented records
 
	*	Area analysis of storage area performance such as the average 
		number of synchronous and asynchronous I/O stalls and the number 
		of times that a storage area has extended
 
	*	Index Analysis of B-tree and hash index performance such as 
		duplicate b-tree or hash index fetch and store operations and average 
		number of b-tree leaf node retrievals


A complete solution 

Through the combination of multiple HP OpenView Smart Plug-ins, HP 
OpenView provides a comprehensive solution covering Rdb and non-Rdb 
components of your business process. 

Get the most from your software investment 

HP provides high-quality software services that address all aspects of your 
software application life-cycle needs. With HP, you have access to 
standards-based, modular, multi-platform software coupled with best-in-class 
services and support. The wide range of HP service offeringsfrom online 
self-solve support to proactive mission-critical servicesenables you to 
choose the services that best match your business needs.
 
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Comprehensive training 
HP provides a comprehensive curriculum of HP OpenView and IT Service 
Management courses. These offerings provide the training you need to 
realize the full potential of your HP solutions, increase your network 
optimization and responsiveness, and achieve better return on your IT 
investments.
 
With more than 25 years experience meeting complex education 
challenges worldwide, HP knows training. This experience, coupled with 
unique insights into HP OpenView software, positions HP to deliver the 
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Technical specifications 

Managed Rdb Nodes

Supported Rdb releases 

	OpenVMS Alpha: Oracle Rdb 7.1.4 and above

	OpenVMS Integrity: Oracle Rdb 7.2 and above 

Supported Operating Systems 

	OpenVMS Integrity 8.2-1, 8.3 and above 

	OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2, 8.2, 8.3 and above                                                     

Supported OpenView Platforms 

	HP OpenView Operations Agent V2.0, ECO 9 or later  


Management Server 

Supported OpenView Platforms 

	HP OpenView Operations 

Supported Operating Systems

	Microsoft Windows, HP-UX

Supported  Smart Plug-In  

	HP OpenView Smart Plug-In for Databases 8.10




Ordering information 

Part number 		Product name 
BA802AA 		HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Rdb, Tier 0 

BA803AA 		HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Rdb, Tier 1 

BA804AA 		HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Rdb, Tier 2 

BA805AA 		HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Rdb, Tier 3 

BA806AA 		HP OpenView Smart plug-in for Rdb, Tier 4

Media and manuals are included with the media kit for HP 
OpenView Operations. 



For more information about hp OpenView smart plug-in for Rdb, visit 
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/system_management.html or 
contact your local HP reseller or HP sales office: 

Australia/New Zealand: +61 3 8877 4097, openview_events@hp.com; 
China: +86 10 6564 3678, software_china@hp.com ; 
Europe: openview_ccc@hp.com ; 
Hong Kong: +85 2 2805 3551, software_solutions@hp.com ; 
India: +91 11 690 6176, software_india@hp.com ; 
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Thailand: +662 661 3900; 
Taiwan: +886 2 2712 0404, software_taiwan@hp.com ; 
United States of America: 1-877-OV-OWNER or visit www.openview.com 

The HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Rdb is the intelligent choice for 
managing Rdb environments of any size, from a single Rdb database 
managed with local tools to a distributed environment of hundreds of 
databases managed from a central, best-in-class console. 




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May 2007 



