Blog Posts
Experts in the Operations Bridge community have created a wide variety of blog posts to help you get the most out of your Operations Bridge Suite. Check out these helpful blog posts to get started:
Next-Generation Operations Bridge
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| What’s new within the Operations Bridge 2017.04 | go |
| Containers going wonky? Cloud service getting murky? Our monitoring brings visibility for solutions | go |
| New software deployment and delivery model: increasing innovation speed | go |
| Container Deployment Foundation delivers high capacity IT Ops Business Value Dashboards | go |
| Supercharge IT Operations using next generation HPE Operations Bridge | go |
| Organic changes that transform – Operations Bridge evolution announced | go |
Operations Bridge Dashboards
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| Business Value Dashboard: Data integration (part 1) | go |
| Business Value Dashboard: Data integration (part 2) | go |
| Business Value Dashboard: Get started now! | go |
| Building your HPE Business value dashboard using tags and dimensions | go |
| Using Business Value Dashboard with the Internet of Things | go |
| Power up Business Value Dashboard with Cloud Optimizer! | go |
| Speedy Cape2Cape globe trotting - connecting you to the driver experience | go |
| Visualize OMi event pipeline performance in the OMi Performance Dashboard | go |
| Making metrics sing with HPE OMI Performance Analytics dashboards | go |
| Fasten your seat belts: Performance Engine to take off! | go |
| Real-time metric streaming of application and custom metrics | go |
Operations Bridge Evolution
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| Grow your IT monitoring by evolving to the OpsBridge Suite | go |
| Evolve to OMi: Implementing instruction text lookup and addressing other policy import "warnings" | go |
| Evolve to OMi: How to smoothly move hundreds of Operations Agents to OMi | go |
| Evolve OM Unix to OMi: Simple Command Line Tools admins need to know | go |
| Evolve to OMi: How to keep your OM policy investment + when to use OMi Management Packs | go |
| Evolve to OMi: How to Setup User Permissions similar to those in OM | go |
| Darwinian evolution of OMi Management Pack | go |
| OM-to-OpsBridge Evolution: Evolve to OMi Management Pack with "SPI to MP Evolution Tool" | go |
| OM users - here is why and how to move to OMi | go |
| Successfully upgrade from Operations Manager to Operations Bridge: The myths, truths and expert tips | go |
| The perfect pass - The evolution of Operations Manager to OMi | go |
Cloud/Virtualization
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| Operations Bridge and AWS: Automatic discovery and seamless Cloudwatch integration | go |
| OpsBridge monitors Docker on the fly | go |
| Your Private Cloud Operations through a Business Lens for more than 58,000 VMs and counting! | go |
| Monitor your x86-virtualized environment for free with vPV | go |
| Public Cloud Service Health Check - Simplified with Operations Bridge | go |
| Keys to deploying OMi 10 on Helion Public Cloud | go |
| Monitoring virtual environments - VM101 | go |
| Now available! Public cloud monitoring: The end-to-end hybrid view with OMi and Helion | go |
Operations Agent
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| How to deploy hundreds of HPE Operations Agents using HPE Operations Orchestration | go |
| AIRVA: A new way to install the HPE Operations Agent! | go |
| OMi: Metric Streaming with Operations Agent 12.01 | go |
| HPE Discover 2016: Learn how Operations Agent improves the health of your monitoring infrastructure | go |
| Five questions to ask before you upgrade to the 64-bit HPE Operations Agent 12.00 on HP-UX | go |
| HPE Operations Agent 12.00—for the new style of IT management | go |
| Exploring the potential of Operations Agent version 12 | go |
| Get agent health at a glance with the Health Dashboard for infrastructure monitoring | go |
Operations Connector
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| How to make sure that your critical Operations Bridge integrations are always up and running | go |
| Operations Connector SDK 2.0 – adding 3rd party systems into your OpsBridge just got a lot easier | go |
| Using OMi to manage policies for multiple Operations Connector systems | go |
| How to integrate Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) into OMi 10.60 and OpsCx 10.11 | go |
Event Processing
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| How to easily reduce events in OMi using Stream Based Event Correlation | go |
| OMi Subcomponent HIs: Granular HIs without creating CIs in RTSM | go |
| A closer look at the functionality of OMi Script Dev Kit | go |
| Easier event handling for Operations Manager i (send, export/import, archive events via CLI) | go |
| OMi: Looking Beyond Event Severity for Prioritization | go |
| OM-OMi: Dealing with Event Duplicates, effectively | go |
| Configuring OMi to propagate Event KPIs with the parent displaying the sum of events | go |
Management Packs / Developing your own content
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| "It really was working after just a few days of development" - OMi Management Pack Hackathon report | go |
| OMi Management Pack Development Kit - Overview | go |
| OMi Management Pack Development Kit - Topology | go |
| OMi Management Pack Development Kit - Events | go |
| Meet the OMi Management Pack DevKit | go |
| Meet the OMi Management Pack DevKit, Part 2 | go |
Monitoring Automation and out-of-the-box Management Packs
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| What’s new with the AWS and Azure Management Pack latest releases | go |
| What’s new in the Operations Manager i Management Pack for Infrastructure 2.0 | go |
| New in the Docker Store - Docker certified HPE Software shows business impact of Docker containers | go |
| Step by Step: OMi Management Pack for Docker | go |
| Use Operations Bridge to Monitor Containerized Applications | go |
| Microsoft Azure Monitoring with HPE OpsBridge Management Pack | go |
| Monitoring PostgreSQL with OMi Management Pack | go |
| Monitor Microsoft Active Directory with OMi Management Pack | go |
| Monitor Oracle Database with OMi Management Pack | go |
| Simplified SAP Monitoring using OMi Management Pack for SAP | go |
| Dock Your Docker with Operations Manager i (OMi Mgmt Pack for Docker) | go |
| Everything you want to know about OMi Management Pack for TIBCO | go |
| How to Configure and Monitor TIBCO using OMi Management Pack for TIBCO | go |
| Switching to Monitoring Automation: How to deploy monitoring configuration | go |
| OMi now includes Automation to simplify IT Monitoring | go |
| Visualize, monitor and remediate your Vertica environment with OMi Management Pack for Vertica | go |
| A new SQL to the IT Operations Management cockpit story | go |
| 3 steps to new metric collection with OMi MP for Oracle Database | go |
| Monitor the job queue, ascertain system bottlenecks - best practice #1 | go |
| Set threshold values correctly for good monitoring since not every day is Sunday - best practice #2 | go |
| Gain the flexibility you need for Management Pack deployment with OMi 10.10 | go |
| Troubleshoot Skype for Business server performance problems with OMi | go |
| Troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server performance problems | go |
Other topics
| Blog Post | Link |
|---|---|
| Achieving your Operations Bridge migration in 5 steps | go |
| How to create your own custom topology using OMi policies | go |
| Hidden treasures in OMi 10.11 – useful CLI and web services enhancements you might not have noticed | go |
| OMi documentation – A new look, feel and simplified access to learn about Operations Bridge Suite | go |
| 10 points on how to visualize and manage performance with OMi | go |
| Graphing Metrics Data in Hierarchical Operations Bridge Deployments | go |
| Operations Manager i: Event Browser unleashed! Your guide to IT event management | go |
| IT operations dashboards: OMi 10.01 new message browser features increases operator efficiency | go |
| How to use Roles, Groups and Users to efficiently manage access to OMi | go |
| Get to a working OMi in 35 minutes or less | go |
| Over the Business Rainbow - A new Business "Heads up Display" | go |
| Announcing Operations Bridge version 10 with 10 great reasons to adopt it | go |
| The Why, the What and the How of the new OMi Content Extension in Service Health Reporter | go |
| VMware tools and why it is important for monitoring and what-not | go |
| Transport Layer Security in OMi 10.10, Simplified Setup | go |
| OMi event console in a 3rd party ecosystem | go |
| Running a OMi proof-of-concept and other lessons from the road | go |
| Recorded Webinar: Gain visibility to the user experience in your Operations Management Dashboard | go |
| 6 similarities between a deal aggregator and Operations Manager i (OMi) | go |