HP OpenView Operations Basic Tutorial: Working around an issue with the “Send Email” sample policy

Recently I started to delve into HP OpenView Operations for Windows (OVOW) policy management from the perspective of learning how to build custom policies and determining what standard policies to apply on some WebSphere Portal related servers that I needed monitored. I skimmed through the OVO Basic Tutorial and tried to actually perform step 10 of the tutorial around creating a custom policy and step 11 around deploying a standard policy. Creating the custom policy (NotepadTest) from the tutorial was a piece of cake – 10 minutes. However getting the standard “email notification” policy to work was not so straightforward!

HP Operations Dashboard does appear to be the answer!

I have spent a significant part of the last couple of weeks chasing down the right solution for integrating data from HP OpenView Operations (OVO), HP Network Node Manager (NNM), HP OpenView Performance Insight (OVPI), and HP OpenView Internet Services (OVIS). And I have finally settled on the HP Operations Dashboard!