3.5 Clients for Operations Center

The Operations Center solution has multiple clients for accessing the Operations Center server. The functionality available in each client varies. The clients are:

  • Operations Center console. The main client for accessing most Operations Center functionality and configuration. All functionality for integrations, monitoring, modeling, and service level agreement management is available in the console. For more an overview of the Operations Center console, see the Operations Center 5.6 User Guide.

  • Dashboard. A Web client to the Operations Center server. Build Web pages that include functionality for monitoring alarms, managing service level agreements, and administering users of the Operations Center server.The dashboard allows users to customize their own Web pages with content from Operations Center as well as other sources. It allows for single sign‑on, personalization, and integration of data from different sources. For more information, see the Operations Center 5.6 Dashboard Guide.

  • Configuration Management System (CMS). A Web application for CMDB projects, that allow users to actively contribute to and maintain the CMS repository information.For more information, see the Operations Center 5.6 Configuration Management System (CMS) Guide.

  • Web Services. An API that supports interaction between third-party solutions and the Operations Center server. For more information, see the Operations Center 5.6 Web Services Guide.

  • SQL Views. Allows read access to the Operations Center server. For more information, see the Operations Center 5.6 SQL Views Guide.