ewlett-Packard is expected to announce next week that its OpenView enterprise-management software will be able to identify firewalls and manage nodes on the other side. The company will also announce modules that will let OpenView users manage multiple Web servers.
HP will preview the products this week at its annual OpenView Forum users' conference in Anaheim, Calif. The company will also discuss plans to integrate its NetMetrix performance-management products into OpenView.
To enable OpenView to ma
nage through firewalls, HP enlisted three firewall vendors-Check Point Software Ltd. in Redwood City, Calif.; Raptor Systems Inc. in Waltham, Mass.; and Trusted Information Systems Inc. in Glenwood, Md.-to make their products compatible with OpenView. The upgraded firewalls will be available on July 1.
This type of management will become increasingly important, analysts say, as customers begin implementing firewalls on their corporate intranets. An estimated 25% of the nodes on corporate networks are already behind firewalls. "There are people who are putting, say, payroll behind a firewall," says David Passmore, president of Decisys Inc., a consulting firm in Sterling, Va. "This will let OpenView see through the firewall and manage all the nodes inside the payroll department."
Paul Edmunds, a network analyst at utility Duke Power Co., an OpenView user in Charlotte, N.C., says he would consider using the new OpenView capabilities. "We're not managing through our firewalls now," he says.
With Inter
net Services Manager, a series of add-on modules to OpenView's IT/Operations component, administrators will be able to perform real-time monitoring of multiple Web servers over a corporate network through a single interface. The add-on modules will cost $795 for each Web server platform being managed.
HP also will unveil next week an initiative dubbed Single Pane of Glass. Analysts characterize this initiative as a reiteration of HP's plan to integrate all the pieces of OpenView and provide that information through a Web browser on a single console.
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ewlett-Packard is expected to announce next week that its OpenView enterprise-management software will be able to identify firewalls and manage nodes on the other side. The company will also announce modules that will let OpenView users manage multiple Web servers.
