I am excited to announce general availability of HP Operations Manager 9.0 on Linux! (That's me holding the media kit for OML.) Although Operations Manager has been able to monitor Linux system for years, this is the first version of Operations Manager that can run on a Linux server. This gives the increasing number of customers that have moved to Linux a way to standardize on that platform for all their monitoring needs.

This latest version of Operations Manager extends a 15-year tradition of innovation. It gives organizations the ability to reduce the cost of managing their increasingly complex IT environments by consolidating events into a central console and to speed the time to resolution by identifying the root cause of event storms.

As previously noted in this blog, HP is positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis.  IT Event Correlation and Analysis software helps decrease mean time to repair and prioritize IT support by how much value it provides to business processes. You can manage agents and perform configuration exchange among Operations Manager management servers on Unix, Windows and now Linux.

While it is a new offering that allows customers to leverage industry standard hardware (x86-64) and Linux open source software, it also shares the same level of stability and robustness as its ancestor, Operations Manager on Unix.  We have taken a large step in convergence of Operations Manager functionality across different platforms and are convinced that customers will reap the benefits of this commonality including decreased training costs and lower development costs through re-use of common elements.

Judging from the volume of email and phone calls I’ve been receiving asking about availability of HP Operations Manager on Linux, I’m positive there will be a healthy demand for the newest member of the HP Operations Center family of products.

For HP Operations Center, Lillian Hull.

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