.NET Development

The Tools

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OVAgent.zip Implements the OpenView Agent API Set within a managed code assembly.   This assembly may not be used for commercial products.  Requires OpenView Agent for Windows version 7.20 or higher.   Documentation for the namespace is contained in the ovagent.txt, as well as sample C# and VB.NET applications using the namespace functions.

With  this assembly you can:

Submit Messages to the Open Message Interceptor directly

Submit Monitor data directly to Measurement Threshold policies for evaluation
ServiceModify.zip Managed Code assembly to manipulate the OVOW Service Map programmatically.   Supports creation and deletion of services, calculation rules, dependencies and propagation rules.  This requires the .NET runtime 1.1.  Intellisense support is included.   CHM File documents it all.
SerivceModifySOAP.zip OVServiceModify assembly, implemented as a SOAP WebService.   Must be installed on the OVOW Management server.   If you don't understand that this requires ASP.NET and the .NET runtime, please don't even try it.  CHM File placed in the virtual web directory for the webservice.
OVMessageWeb.zip OpenView Message (OpCMsg) WebService - allows sending of OpenView messages from nodes without OpenView agents.   The WebService must be installed on an IIS server with ASP.NET, and an OpenView Agent with a valid OpCMsg Policy.  Zip file contains a vbscript sample of how to call the webservice from a remote system.  Change the URL in the script to reflect the location of the OVMessage WebService.   Source code for the WebService is included in the setup.