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Integrating with VantagePoint Navigator
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HP OpenView VantagePoint Navigator is an add-on component of HP
OpenView VantagePoint Operations. It enables you to manage your IT
environment while focusing on the IT services you provide. See the VP
Navigator Concepts and Configuration Guide for more information.
When using the standard VantagePoint Navigator product, service
configuration is done with the command line tool opcservice. Service
operation is performed with the VantagePoint Navigator GUI which
displays the current status of the monitored services.
With the VPO Developer’s Toolkit, it is possible to integrate directly with
VantagePoint Navigator. The following integration facilities are
provided:
❏ XML Data Interface
The XML Data Interface allows you to write or get service
configuration directly into or from the service engine via a filesystem
socket.
• Allows you to write the service configuration directly into the
service engine. The configuration syntax follows the XML rules
defined in the document type definition (DTD) operations.dtd.
• Allows you to get the current service configuration and service
status directly from the service engine. The output syntax follows
the XML rules defined in the DTD results.dtd.
The XML Data Interface is of special interest to integrators who, for
example, want to provide service discovery scripts to automatically
discover the services to be monitored by the VantagePoint Navigator
integration.