HP OpenVMS Systems

Product Description

HP Operations Manager HTTPS Agent and SPI software provides highly secure communication between Operations Manager Server and their managed nodes. HTTPS agents are generally used and administered in the same way as DCE-based agents. Applications are launched in the same way. All functionalities that are available with DCE-based agents are also available with HTTPS agents unless explicitly stated otherwise. Policies for HTTPS agents are created, assigned and deployed in a similar way as templates for DCE-based agents.

HTTPS-based communication provides you with the following major advantages:

• Simple management through firewalls with configurable, single-port, secure communication using open HTTPS-based communication techniques. Restrict outside access to dedicated HTTP proxies and reduce port usage by multiplexing over HTTP proxies
• Out-of-the-box Internet Secure Communication using SSL/PKI encryption with server and client certificates for authentication.
• Communication is based on standard Web technologies (HTTP, SOAP, Proxies, SSL etc.), available in every environment today, and familiar to every IT administrator.
• Message format based on XML and SOAP used for message security from the Operations Manager HTTPS Agent to the Operations Manager Server.
• IP independence/dynamic IP (DHCP). Managed nodes can be identified by their unique OvCoreID and not necessarily by their IP addresses.
• OpenView standard control and deployment mechanism.