HP E5000: Planning and Deployment Exchange 2010

A very nice analysis for upgrade plan and deploy decision for Exchange 2010 on HP E 5000

OMW: SPI for Database–SQL made simple

HP Service Manager as SaaS

OMW: Script to Change Agent from DCE to HTTPs Part2

Many administrators looking to automate the time consuming process, I had seen requests in HP support forums on how to change agent in bulk

I have created the below script which utilizes Policy Management and Deployment (PMAD) API which mainly starts by

set pmad = CreateObject("PMAD.OvPmdPolicyManager") 
pmad.ConnectDB

We can compare the above lines by opening the Node Editor

Set node = PMAD.CreateNode(nodeGuid)

The line above is locating or creating a node typically like Selecting the node you will modify the agent attributes.

createnode = node.ChangeAgent(liAgentCommType,wminode.AgentBinaryFormatId,256, "", "")

The lines above is like right click the node and select Change Agent which is executed by ChangeAgent() function which should be formatted like ChangeAgent(lAgtType,lBinaryFormat,ulOptions,sUser,sPwd)

lAgtType
- Defines the communication type of the HP Operations agent (DCE or HTTPS) that should run on the node.

lBinaryFormat
- Defines the binary format of the HP Operations agent that should run on the node.

ulOptions
- Defines the type of authentication that will be used for the operation

• PMAD_DEPL_NONE_OPT - This flag cannot be combined with any other flags. Use this flag when you do not want to pass any other flags.
  
• PMAD_DEPL_IGNORE_OWNER_OPT - If this flag is NOT SET, the operation fails if some policies are owned by another management server. If this flag if SET, the owner attribute of the policies is ignored.
  
• PMAD_DEPL_FORCE_OPT - If this flag is NOT SET, the operation fails whenever there are policies in the inventory on the server for which no data is available. However, if this flag is SET, policies with no data are ignored (that is, not deployed again).
  
• PMAD_DEPL_IMPERSONATE_OPT - If SET, the remote managed node is accessed with the security context of the impersonated user (the user that called this API).
  
• PMAD_DEPL_PMADUSER_OPT - If SET, the remote managed node is accessed with the security context of the HP-OVE-Deleg-User account (the one under which PMAD is running).

Which I chose PMAD_DEPL_IMPERSONATE_OPT which uses the current user this options has a hex value 0x100 and the ulOptions means unsigned long which means a non negative decimal value which means here 256

sUser
- Name of the account used to access the remote node. You can specify the account either as a user principal name (UPN such as UserName@DomainName) or in the down-level log-on name format (DomainName\UserName).
sPwd
- Password of the account used to access the remote node.

 

The Full script

Dim nodeName
Dim agent
Dim argsObj
Set argsObj=WScript.Arguments
If argsObj.Count=2 Then
nodeName = argsObj(0)
newAgentType = argsObj(1)
Else
WScript.echo "usage: cscript.exe ovchgagent.vbs <nodeName> <agenttype>"
WScript.Quit (1)
End If
Dim objLocator
Set objLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Dim objNode
Set objNode = objLocator.ConnectServer("", "root\HewlettPackard\OpenView\data", "", "")
objNode.Security_.impersonationlevel = 3
Dim msgquery
msgquery = "Select * from ov_managednode where primarynodename = """ & nodeName & """"
Dim objNodeList
Set objNodeList = objNode.ExecQuery(msgquery)
Dim nodeGuid
Dim wminode
For Each wminode In objNodeList
nodeGuid = wminode.Name
wscript.echo nodeguid
Next
Set wminode = Nothing
Set objNodeList = Nothing
Set objNode = Nothing
Set objLocator = Nothing
Dim pmad
set pmad = CreateObject("PMAD.OvPmdPolicyManager")
pmad.ConnectDB
If pmad.DBConnected And nodeGuid <> "" Then
Select Case newAgentType
    Case "n/a":
        liAgentCommType = 0
    Case "DCE":
        liAgentCommType = 1
    Case "HTTPS":
        liAgentCommType = 2
End Select

Dim node
Set node = PMAD.CreateNode(nodeGuid)
createnode = node.ChangeAgent(liAgentCommType,wminode.AgentBinaryFormatId,256, "", "")
Set node = Nothing
Else
wscript.echo "node not found or invalid, or cannot connect to database!"
End If
Set pmad = Nothing

OMW: Script to Change Agent from DCE to HTTPs Part1

HP Operations manager prior to version 8, managed node are monitored through Agent uses RPC/DCE communication, which had lots of issues as it is unsecured communication and communication configuration headache for the Agent and Server through firewall

In HP Operations Manager 8  and later a new Agent is introduced called HTTP agent which uses encrypted HTTPs certificate-based communication to secure the data and uses only single port for the communication between OM and Agents ( TCP 383 by default)

So organizations with DCE Agents should be change the agent to HTTPS based to leverage the new features. the process is quite simple as the Administrator should access the Node Editor and Change the agent

To change the agent type

Open Node Editor by Right click Server Node > Configure > Node

Select Node and right click select Change Agent

This process will performs deployment operation as the following steps:

1. Removes all packages and policies that are currently installed on the node.
2. Deletes the server inventory for packages for the specified node, but keeps the server inventory for policies.
3. Changes the agent type, binary format, or both of the node in WMI.
4. Deploys the new binary of the HP Operation agent to the node.
5. Redeploys all policies that were previously installed on the node (they are still in the server inventory) to the node. The additional agent packages and the instrumentation that is required by these policies are automatically deployed first.

Part 2 Click here

OMW: Enhanced HP Operations Manager 8.10 for Windows (short sessions)

Introduction | HP
Upgrade to OMW 8 | HP
What's new with OMW 8.10 | HP
Dependency Mapping Automation | HP
NNMi Integration | HP