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Oracle has taken steps to streamline the management of complex enterprise grid computing environments with the release of the HP OpenView Smart Plug-In for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g. The integration between HP OpenView and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control) enables IT departments to use the core competencies of both products to maximize utilization across its systems. Users can anticipate improved system availability and performance in even the most complex IT environments and grids. Oracle Grid Control offers advanced application and service level monitoring, performance management and provisioning for Oracle environments. HP OpenView provides an underlying framework to monitor, manage and provision operating systems, hardware and networks. "Grid computing promises to deliver advanced business agility and flexibility for organizations to align their IT systems to address core business needs," said Jay Rossiter, vice president of System Management Products, Oracle Corp. "Organizations with the right system management tools to effectively monitor and manage enterprise grids will be able to maximize the cost and performance benefits of grid computing -- providing them with a distinct advantage over the competition. Together, we're simplifying the management of Oracle enterprise grids running on HP platforms across customer data centers." "Oracle and HP have a long history of joint development successes related to our respective system management offerings," said Todd DeLaughter, vice president, Management Software and Solutions, HP. "The HP OpenView Smart Plug-In for Oracle Enterprise Manager builds upon the companies' combined work to deliver offerings that help ease the management of IT systems for organizations and provides end to end application management of the Oracle 10g platform -- resulting in lower administrative costs and increased administrator productivity." Integration between HP OpenView and Oracle Enterprise Manager The plug-in enables administrators to monitor critical Oracle Application Server, Oracle Database and Oracle E-Business Suite metrics, providing notification of events, warnings and alerts from within the HP OpenView console, and correlate that information with system level behavior. In addition, the combined solution proactively identifies all issues related to the entire Oracle technology stack and offers problem resolution tools to minimize issues capable of impacting availability or performance. Not only are administrators informed of potential IT issues, but they can access real-time and historical system information that will allow them to optimize their Oracle environment running on HP platforms. Availability The HP OpenView Smart Plug In for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control is available from HP today. The plug-in is available for the following platforms: Operations management server * Operations 7.1 on HP-UX * Operations 7.2 on Windows * Operations 7.1 on Solaris Operations agent platform * HP-UX * Solaris Server Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control version * Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid control on HP-UX * Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid control on Solaris Additional information is available at: http://www.openview.hp.com/products/spi/spi_oem_grid_control/index.html