Microsoft Systems Management Server and HP Openview for Windows

Integration Files


Functionality
Microsoft and HP have worked together to integrate Microsoft Systems
Management Serverand HP OpenView for Windows 7.2 products.  Both
SMS and OV/Win must be run on the same Windows NT machine.  This 
document describes the integrated functionality, the files used to 
achieve this functionality, and the installation instructions.  Please 
read this whole document before beginning the installation.  The 
integration will result in the following functionality:

From SMS
An OpenView icon is displayed in the SMS Personal Computer Properties 
for a selected computer.  When the icon is clicked, OV is brought to 
the foreground and the OV map window is displayed with the corresponding
OpenView symbol selected. The OpenView icon is only displayed when 
OpenView is installed on the machine running SMS and the selected 
machine has either an IP or IPX address.  OpenView must be started 
before the machine properties are shown in order for the icon to appear.

From OpenView
The user will be able to view the SMS Personal Computer Properties 
dialog box for a selected computer and also be able to run SMS directly 
from OpenView.  After correctly installing the integration files there 
will be a new menu selection in OpenView called SMS under the Monitor
menu.  Options under the "SMS" menu selection are "Properties..."
to view the SMS Personal Computer Properties dialog box for a selected 
computer, "Run SMS" to start the SMS Admin program, and "Events" to view
the NT event log for the local system.

Files
The files used for the integration are:

OVSMS.EXE		
OpenView application that runs SMS.EXE and MACHVIEW.DLL (machine 
properties dialog).  OVSMS.EXE basically provides the hooks into the SMS 
database structure.

OVHERM.DLL
SMS library that displays OpenView icon in the left pane of the 
Personal Computer Properties window when a machine is selected. 
OVHERM.DLL is 32-bit code that sends messages to OpenView to 
bring up the OV Map in a separate window.

HPDB.EXE
Program to register OVHERM.DLL with SMS


Installation Instructions

1. First install HP OpenView for Windows and Microsoft Systems Management 
Server separately.  

2. Next, run the SETUP program in the installation directory.  The user 
will be prompted for the directory where SMS was installed.

3. In order to update the SMS database with the integration components, 
the user will be prompted for the SMS database information.  Enter the 
server name, database name (e.g. SMS), and a login id and password as
used to access the SMS database.  

4. When HP OpenView and SMS are next run, the integration menus and icon
will be displayed.  


Miscellaneous Notes
1.  When running OpenView on a TCP/IP only network (i.e. OV was not 
installed with the IPX selection checked) and using the Windows NT 
TCP/IP stack, an error message box may appear when OV is started
This is due to the Windows NT TCP/IP stack not supporting raw sockets, 
which OpenView uses for polling.  The integration components should 
still work, however.  This message may be prevented by removing the 
NETMON= line from the [OpenViewApps] section of ovwin.ini in the 
OpenView directory (C:\OV).
Future versions of HP Openview will work around this limitation.  

2.  At least one Netware server is required for OpenView to discover 
IPX machines.