send alerts via SNMP, it is possible to integrate virtually any application that can receive SNMP traps.

•Data Protector backup session auditing stores information about all backup tasks that were performed over extended periods for the whole Data Protector cell, and provides this information on demand in an integral and printable fashion for auditing and administrative purposes.

•The integration of Data Protector with HP Operations Manager software allows you to receive alerts from Data Protector on the OM console and have automatic actions performed.

•The Data Protector capability to send major and critical events into the Windows Event Log opens up a variety of interesting integration possibilities.

•The integration with HP Operations Manager Windows (OMW)automatically forwards Data Protector major and critical events to the OMW console. Automatic actions can be set up to react upon failures in the backup environment.

•The Data Protector built-in Java-based online reporting allows you to do online reporting from wherever you are in your network (even from a remote location) without the need to have the Data Protector user interface installed on your local system. This functionality requires a Web browser.

Application Response Measurement version 2.0 (ARM 2.0 API)

What Is ARM?

The ARM API is an emerging standard for measuring end-to-end response times of transactions in distributed environments. Application programs that use the ARM API act as sources of response time information (and also user supplied information that may be relevant to a particular transaction) for ARM compliant system management and monitoring tools such as HP Performance Agent (PA). PA will log ARM transaction information in its repository for subsequent analysis and reporting. It can also raise real time alerts (or “alarms”) when the elapsed time of a specific transaction, such as a backup operation, exceeds a predefined threshold. When a real time alert is raised, a number of actions are possible, including, but not limited to, informing a

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