hp openview monitoring solution – enable disable policies
This document is part of the “ESM – How To” Guides and gives instructions on how to Disable and Enable monitoring policies on Servers managed by Openview for Unix (OVOU), Openview for Windows (OVOW) and opsview for blackout or maintenance purposes.
Monitoring disabling / enabling process may differ depending what solution is used for monitoring the servers involved in the DR test.
This document list procedures to disable and enable monitoring in different monitoring solutions.
1.Monitoring changes to servers monitored in OVOU(Unix/Linux)
1.1. Disabling monitoring templates
Disable monitoring templates on the monitored server.
Logon to server and execute following command as root user
/opt/OV/bin/opctemplate –d -all
Above command will disable all monitoring policies on the server.
Now disable openview agent heartbeat polling from Openview servers(Server Side):
Execute following commands to disable OVO agent heartbeat polling
/opt/OV/bin/OpC/opchbp –stop <name of server>
1.2. Enabling monitoring templates
Enable monitoring templates on the monitored server.
Logon to server and execute following command as root user
/opt/OV/bin/opctemplate –e -all
Above command will enable all monitoring policies on the server.
Now enable openview agent heartbeat polling from Openview servers(Server Side):
Execute following commands to enable OVO agent heartbeat polling
/opt/OV/bin/OpC/opchbp –start <name of server>
2.Disabling monitoring for servers monitored in OVOW(Windows)
Firstly, access the Web Console of OV:
http://yourserver/OVOWeb/
2.1 Disabling policy(s)
Select the Policies Icon on the left hand panel and then expand the Nodes by selecting the select the plus next to the nodes in the center panel. Once you have located the server that you want to disable policies on select it and the policy inventory is shown in the right hand panel. The policies to be disabled are selected using the check boxes next to the policy name, or to disable all the policies select the check box next to the name, and this will select all the policies. Then select the Disable tab and the policies will be disabled, the display will show Active and pending until all the policies have been disabled, use the Refresh tab to update the screen.
2.2 Enabling policy(s)
Please refer to 2.1 Disabling policy(s)
3.Monitoring changes for servers monitored in Opsview(Nagios)
Log on opsview through web, search and locate the host you want operate on, Click on the grey arrow on the right side of the node and choose “Schedule downtime”. Now you can choose the start and End time for the downtime for this server.
