Operations Bridge Suite:
Level 300
Pre-Sales Training
ITOM OpsB Technical Enablement
Alon Lifshitz
Aleksey Potapchuk
Martha Roden (narrator)
January 2017
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 Introduction

 300-series Training
 Course structure

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Introduction to the 300-Series of Training Courses

What are the 300-series Training Courses?

L300

300
L320 L340 L360-380

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About this Course

You will learn Components Key takeaways Prerequisites Certification

– What is the OpsB – Capabilities – OpsB Suite – L110 to L150 – Take the
Suite? – Relations structure certification exam.
– What are the OpsB – OpsB role in IT The link takes you
Components? to the Sales Portal:
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– What are the OpsB Go to ITOM tab
Suite editions? te r
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– Who are the OpsB Portfolio Series
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 What is the OpsB Suite?

 Who uses it?

 What is it?

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Who is served by the OpsB Suite?

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What is Operations Bridge Suite?
 OpsB Editions

 3 editions
 Add-ons

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What are the OpsB Editions?

Express Premium Ultimate

Add-ons

Express Premium Ultimate

 OpsB Components

 OMi  CO
 OBA  UD/ASM
 OBR  OO
 BVD  OpsCx / SiteScope

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Data Center Diagram
OpsB Suite Architecture
OMi Data Center

OBA Server
OpsB Suite Components

OBR OA

BVD
Server
CO OA

UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
OpsCx / SiteScope

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Operations Manager (OMi)
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is OMi? OMi Data Center
 Isolation, investigation, remediation
OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do?
OBR OA
 Event management
 Performance graphs
 Management packs BVD
Server
 Monitoring automation
 Event correlation CO OA
 Remediation
UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
Express Premium Ultimate
OpsCx /
SiteScope

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OMi Management Packs Communit
Database yPremium
CA Spectrum
Standard
Middleware
ERP

Big Data & Cloud

zookeeper Oozie Flume HPE Vertica emcached

Development & Automation Microsoft Technologies

Generic protocols & mail servers

Open LDAP Bind DNS Openssh DHCP HTTP File Change FTP Server SMTP SNMP

Infrastructure
HPE Storage
HPE UX Oracle Ent. Linux Clusters Essentials IBM LPAR

Solaris Zones

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Operation Bridge Reporter (OBR)
What is OBR? OpsB Suite Architecture
 Based on Big Data technology OMi Data Center
 Consolidates performance data and
metrics OBA Server
 Collects and collates

OpsB Suite Components

OBR OA
What does it do?
 Out-of the box report integration with: BVD
 RTSM Server
 Agent-based/agent-less solutions CO OA
 OM and OMi
 NNMi and NNM iSPI Performance UD/ASM
 Server Automation Server
 Cross-domain reports OO
 Content development environment OA
 Report customization Premium Ultimate
OpsCx /
SiteScope

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Operation Bridge Analytics
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is OBA? OMi Data Center
 Analytics platform for IT professionals
OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do?
 Imports multiple data types and stores in OBR OA
Big Data Warehouse
 Intelligently processes data BVD
Server
 Solves critical problems with automated,
advanced analytics CO OA
 Detects anomalies
 Investigates anomalies UD/ASM
 Automatically prevents issues Server
 Performs intuitive search OO
 Performs unified search OA
Ultimate
OpsCx /
SiteScope

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Business Value Dashboard (BVD)
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is BVD? OMi Data Center
 Provides dashboards that visually display
metrics for IT and Business staff OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do? OBR OA
 Receives metrics
 Displays metrics in animated Visio BVD
Server
diagrams
 Provides a graphical way to illustrate CO OA
relationships between IT and business
UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
Express Premium Ultimate
OpsCx /
SiteScope

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BVD “Look and Feel”

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Cloud Optimizer (CO)
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is CO? OMi Data Center
 Collates resource data
OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do?
 Tree-map view OBR OA
 Performance view
 Capacity forecasting BVD
Server
 “What if” modeling and placement
 Right sizing CO OA
 Integrates with OMi
 Integrates with OBR UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
Ultimate
OpsCx /
SiteScope

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Universal Discovery Automated Service Modeling (UD/ASM)
FIX NOTES
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is UD/ASM?
OMi Data Center
 Discovers CIs and stores them in
UCMDB OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do? OBR OA
 Creates service models
 Updates service models BVD
 Discovery Server
 Integrates with OMi CO OA

UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
Ultimate
OpsCx /
SiteScope

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Operation Orchestration (OO)
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is OO? OMi Data Center
 Designs and executes multi-step tasks
and workflows OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do? OBR OA
 Designs
 Imports BVD
Server
 Executes
 Integrates with OMi CO OA

UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
Ultimate
OpsCx /
SiteScope

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 OpsB Data Collectors

 OA
 OpsCx
 SiteScope

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Operations Agent
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is Operations Agent? OMi Data Center
 Background service, controlled externally
OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do?
 Data collector OBR OA
 Actions
BVD
Server
CO OA

UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
Express Premium Ultimate
OpsCx /
SiteScope

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Operations Connector (OpsCx)
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is OpsCx? OMi Data Center
 Connects to 3rd party managers
OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do?
OBR OA
 Collects data
 Processing
 Integrations BVD
Server
CO OA

UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
Express Premium Ultimate

OpsCx

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OpsCx Integrations

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SiteScope
OpsB Suite Architecture
What is SiteScope? OMi Data Center
 Agentless monitoring solution
OBA Server

OpsB Suite Components

What does it do?
 Monitors OBR OA
 Agentless
 Custom monitoring BVD
Server
CO OA

UD/ASM
Server
OO
OA
Express Premium Ultimate

SiteScope

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 Wrap-Up

 Editions
 Competitors
 Glossary

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More about Operations Bridge editions

Express Premium Ultimate

Components: Components: Components:

 OMi  OMi  OMi
 OpsCx  OpsCx  OpsCx
 OBR  OBR
Optional add-ons:  BVD  BVD
 Operations Agent  OBA
 BVD Optional add-ons:  Cloud Optimizer
 SiteScope  Operations Agent  Operation Orchestration
 Management Packs  SiteScope  UD/ASM
 Management Packs
Optional add-ons:
 Operations Agent
 SiteScope
 Management Packs
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Competitors in the market place: Logos and names

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Glossary and terminology

Subject Description
Data Collector A functionality dedicated to gathering and forwarding data to OpsB components.
Some components can act as data collectors and components at the same time.
Agent / Agentless An agent runs as service on target host. Agentless connects via available APIs.

Event A change of state that has significance for the management of a Configuration
Item or IT Service
Metric Something that is measured and reported to help manage a Process, IT service,
or activity.
Hybrid IT IT environment that includes in-house and cloud hosted resources.

Big Data Extremely large data sets that may be analyzed computationally to reveal
patterns, trends, and associations.
Remediation In OpsB context: fixing an IT problem.

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Glossary and terminology (cont’d)

Subject Description
Edition A license type.

HPLN A portal to share or sell solutions based on HPE products.

CI A configuration item. This is any component of an IT Infrastructure, virtual or

physical such as: servers, SLAs, software, models of Cis, and documents.
Model A relationship-based collection of configuration items.

OneView IT infrastructure management software for HPE data center components.

Hypervisor Computer software, firmware, or hardware, that creates and runs virtual
machines.

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Summary
What’s next?
Congratulations!
The Certification
You completed the course.
Exam!
But this is not the end … Click the link below to go to the Sales
Portal and register for the exam:
https://swsalesportal.hpe.com/group/s
oftware-sales/certifications
Pass with a score  ITOM Readiness Roadmap
 Level 300 Technical Series
of 80% or better!  Operations Bridge Level 300

Keep your eyes open for the Operations Bridge Suite Level 320
training course when it becomes available on the Sales Portal!
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Thank you
For more information, visit the Sales or Partner Portal.

Make sure to fill out your survey after the course!

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