While OMU 9.0 represents evolutionary innovation, Operations Manager i 8.1 (OMi) is truly revolutionary. Operations Manager i is a set of add-on products which extends existing HP Operations Manager to provide advanced event correlation and system health capabilities.

It uses the proven causal engine from NNMi with a completely new set of rules designed for server infrastructure rather than network components. This topology-based event correlation reduces duplication of effort in the Operations Bridge by automatically determining which events are symptoms and which are the cause of a problem. If you don’t have TBEC, you have to write and maintain a ton of rules to eliminate events that are symptoms and not causes. This is time consuming (eight full-time people for a medium-sized European bank) and error prone.

Conservative estimates indicate that OMi can save over $3 million annually in event processing per year for a company the size of HP. If I can get the real numbers next year, I will post them here.

To learn more about OMi, you can attend a Vivit webinar on July 21, 2009 or EMA webinar on July 28, 2009.

For Operations Center, Peter Spielvogel.