Operations Center v5.0 contains the following functionality and enhancements described in the following topics:
All products has been renamed and rebranded to be consistent with Novell products. Product user interfaces have been updated visually to the Novell product “look & feel”. The product and component name changes are outlined in Table 2-1.
Table 2-1 Product Name Changes
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The following sections list the database management systems (DBMS), discovery tools, operating systems (OS), and management systems that are validated for use with Operations Center:
For more information, see the Operations Center 5.0 Server Installation Guide and Operations Center 5.0 Adapter and Integration Guide.
Operations Center now supports the following operating systems for the Operations Center server:
IBM AIX 6.1
However, AIX is unsupported for Operations Center Dashboard and CMS.
Operations Center now supports the following database management systems:
DB2 9.7
PostgresSQL 8.4.3
Sybase ASE 15
However, DB2, PostgresSQL, and Sybase are unsupported for Operations Center Dashboard. DB2 is unsupported for CMS.
Operations Center integrates to the following management systems:
IBM Micromuse Netcool 7.2
Solarwinds Orion 9.5
Operations Center now offers an automated process for the import of LDAP users and groups; and the ongoing dynamic update of user/group accounts.
For more information about these new features, see Configuring LDAP Authentication
in Operations Center 5.0 Security Management Guide.
Operations Center now offers the following new portlets in the Operations Center Dashboard for support of Service Level Agreement information and reporting:
SLA Compliance Portlet
SLA Status Portlet
For more information about these new portlets, see SLA Reporting Portlets
in Operations Center 5.0 Dashboard Guide.
Operations Center now offers the creation of custom operations for Operations Center CMS elements.
For more information about these new features, see Creating Custom Operations
in Operations Center 5.0 Configuration Management System (CMS) Guide.