OpenText Operations Bridge Valuable Features
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David Collier
Co-Founder at Nobius IT
Event correlation is useful. The increasing use of a common "data lake" approach to monitoring and other ITOM disciplines could be useful, but it is resource hungry and not capable of being cloud-hosted (at least the last version I worked with wasn't).
OpsBridge also promotes a service-oriented approach to monitoring, which is valuable for larger MSPs.
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MiritGoldring
Delivery Manager at AMAN
The most valuable feature of the solution depends on a few factors. Sometimes if a user is working with, for example, Norton systems, and uses the consoles or monitoring desk ports, if they work with the system feed, they can present a performance report. It's very useful because users can do quite a bit of analytics just from that.
The core manager also allows for the creation of a custom dashboard, and users can use the cache from the dashboard which can include images. You can import the images to the custom dashboard and create basically whatever you want or need.
Micro Focus Operations Bridge is a good solution for my company. What's most valuable is that it's a universal system that lets you monitor infrastructure and application services and correlate and display data for IT and other businesses.
I also find the Micro Focus Operations Bridge dashboard valuable, including its instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure.
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OpenText Operations Bridge
April 2024
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reviewer1581648
Senior Analyst at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
The event correlation is the most valuable aspect of the solution.
View full review »We use it for event correlation as the manager of infrastructure-consuming applications and of network events. This is the first time that Vodafone has consolidated all tiers of service delivery. We now have a consolidated dashboard that shows availability and performance across key business services. The value is cost optimization, scalability, and efficiencies. We're able to transform multiple monitoring teams into one working off one console instead of 3, 4, 5, and 6. We have all the data in one place.
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reviewer2131245
Global Monitoring Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The even consolidation is great and the extract mechanisms give you very good correlation features.
The stability is good.
I've found the solution to be very scalable.
View full review »The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus.
View full review »The ability to automate a lot of the repetitive tasks so that many human tasks are taken over by Bots. That is the most valuable feature in HPE Operations Bridge.
In today's world, we are under constant pressure to reduce IT resources. The more we can automate, the better it is.
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Rakesh Kanojia
Senior Technical Pre-Sales Consultant / Project Manager (BSM) at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Event consolidation
Cross domain event correlation
Run Time Service Model (RTSM)
Flexible dashboard with the availability of widgets
Agent and agentless monitoring
The most important feature is availability of the software on Docker, hence reducing implementation & upgrade timeline
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PM436379
System Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It's really the basis for everything we do for event management, for enterprise management. It's a single pane of glass and it has the ability that when you select a particular event that you can see all information required in a single pane versus having to launch four or five applications.
View full review »The various types of monitors are very useful. We use them all:
- Threshold monitors
- Log file monitors
- Open message templates
- SNMP trap monitors
- Process monitors
- Database and infrastructure SPIs.
Additionally, the Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance.
View full review »Single pane of glass. NOC has to view only a single screen to monitor the entire infrastructure. All events can be seen on single screen and they integrate well with other products.
Well integrated OMi with Network Node Manager (NNM), Operations Bridge Reporter (OBR), Operations Manager for Linux (OML), and Operations Connector and Universal Discovery to correlate events using SBEC event correlation. Event correlation helps to consolidate and reduce event counts, so operators can act quickly and resolve the issue in a timely manner.
It has the capability to display overall health of the infrastructure and is very useful for executive reports on the health of the infrastructure.
View full review »The ability to integrate directly with the RIPM on top of DSM. We're looking to use the event feed into OMI, the metrics feed, and using things like SHA. There might be opportunities later to try for a faster root cause analysis.
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IrshadKhan
Senior Technology Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The correlation feature is the most used feature. It allows you to correlate events from different sources and have more meaningful events.
This is a mature product. There is good support from HPE and it involves constant updates. There is a path to move on to the next product.
View full review »I think it's a practical solution for taking a lot of different inputs from our operations and transforming them into sort of unified, actionable events that you can automate and make sense of automatically. We get a lot of different inputs in a lot of different formats which usually, once a person looks at it, it comes down to something very simple, like an event type.
Operations Bridge works with the idea that these events are mapped, sometimes manually, sometimes from pre-existing templates, into event-type indicators and then you can build automation logic on those indicators. That's valuable because it means we can do automation on events that come from different sources without going through each source every time to do the same automation, over and over again.
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SystemSp206e
System Specialist with 11-50 employees
Transparency is one of the big features. We reduced our attempt to repair by forty percent. That was one of the big benefits. The other one is transparency between the departments, as well as for the executive members, the board of directors. They look actually at that data on a daily basis.
View full review »It's helped us to increase transparency of our line of business, as well as both transparency and visibility of the IT department within the company.
View full review »As a total offering, Ops Bridge is a strong offering in the market. It adds value; it's competitive in its entirety, from network scanning to enrichment, up into event information. The implementation is challenging with customers, so we see added value, but there are diminished returns due to the complexity of the implementation and also the maintainability in general. There are some challenges, but overall there is added value.
View full review »Purely, its flexibility is the most valuable aspect. It is hugely configurable. We have a huge amount of different kinds of technologies, different kinds of operating systems and management packs that effectively are run and managed by Operations Bridge.
View full review »It helps us to take into account all of our infrastructure. It's monitoring all our infrastructure and is one single point of truth. It's also quite flexible for configuration. You can correlate certain systems with each other along with applications. Thus, we like the HPE product very much as it keeps our systems under control and in-check. You can also filter out the different alarms from your systems.
View full review »I think what I'm really looking for is being able to get a faster root cause analysis for events and incidents that happen, including correlation of events across networks, servers, and applications across our infrastructure. We have a real hybrid landscape where we are on premises, as well as in the public cloud, across AWS, and in the Azure cloud. We want to make sure that we have our operations running brilliantly with fantastic up-times. We think that getting our resiliency right is possible, because we get faster root causes and event correlations that can actually come from the solution itself.
View full review »The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with everything.
View full review »The OVPA plugins for the various OS levels.
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reviewer1248522
Team Lead Information Security Control at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature is that everything can be consolidated into one dashboard.
It allows us to build dashboards for individual parts of the business. Our team members appreciate that they can just get a view of their part of the world without having to worry about anyone else's. This seems to be the most valuable feature for us right now.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Operations Bridge is the centralization of all the alerts, events, and topology-based statistics that you can see in a centralized view for different customers internally. It could be your support groups, your management, or your governance. That's what we feel like it's giving us. It is the ability to look at it holistically, even though it's pure statistics from events and notifications. Your key performance indicators can be validated very easily and centrally.
From our monitoring perspective or from a visibility perspective, HPE UCMDB is a must have. It's an amazing piece of software. Regardless what other systems you have in your environment, you should have UCMDB in place because it performs a very good classification and discovery of your CIs. This tends to build up that service model that can be utilized between any piece of software. This is a great value we are getting out of UCMDB.
Operations Bridge, as is the OMI 10, is a great piece of software. It has a lot of potential that needs more exploration and we'll be doing that. We will be engaging my competent team, because we are working with HPE very closely, even for the developmental aspects. We are providing our inputs and we are bringing that change which is required for the tool. I must say that OMI 10 has great potential. This is where our core focus is, to improve on that potential aspect.
View full review »For us, the most valuable features are the ability to identify IT issues in your estates and to be able to rectify them hopefully before they cause outages to services.
View full review »Operations Bridge is a solution that will bring together a lot of various operation data sources from the network server's applications and help the customer to focus in one area, one place, so they can escalate and route the issue to the proper resource for particular incidents. I've applied that type of software for various customers.
View full review »For me, the most valuable feature is the presentation of the status of business services. It takes events and topologies and shows you the health and performance of your business services.
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Osamah Abu-Romman
Head of OSS and Services Division at TE Data
It helped us move from a company that looks at its network from a resource perspective to a service perspective.
View full review »What's most valuable for us is the ability to see all events that occur on our network.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the integration with other HPE products because it enables us to feed all the information into same area; whereas before it was in different sites.
It is very adaptable and relatively easy to install.
View full review »It's very scalable and it does seem capable of accepting the volume. You can just keep expanding it as your organization grows.
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Mathieu TESSON
Responsable supervision at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
the most important aspects in Operation Managers are:
* The total environment provided by microfocus. All the tools can be implemented together with a certain ease.
*A lot of documentation provided by Microfocus and a fairly large community. The forum is provided in response from members.
* Enrichment is also a strong point but also found among competitors
View full review »The most valuable feature is the event correlation and how we handle the events. There are a lot of possibilities and it's a new experience for us. I used to work with IBM. It's another way of working and thinking and it's a revelation for us.
View full review »The most valuable features are that the main console, which our customers really like, the sexy UI, its complete passivity, and ability to work with non-HP vendors. But the main advantage is the reporting capability.
View full review »After I think ten years of using OML, we finally had some nice dashboards, which enabled us to get more insight and produce reports.
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Iegor Skrynnyk
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The most valuable feature is the seamless monitoring of both Windows and Unix servers.
You can create an application topology that shows relationships between different components.
View full review »The preloaded rules and ways to monitor your systems are a must. We did not want to create rules for each system and software.
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reviewer1451937
Operations Leader - Global Automation at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It's a very good product overall.
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ITConsula87e
ITSM Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's difficult to assess the valuable features. We are living in a small country while HP is more focused on larger companies, so for us it's quite expensive. It's very powerful, but it's quite expensive.
The broad integration possibilities, I'd say, with any kind of product, are probably the most valuable feature.
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OpenText Operations Bridge
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText Operations Bridge. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.