Integration is a core activity in IT management. There are different tools for different technologies (apps, servers, network, etc.) and diffferent functional areas (fault, performance, ticketing, etc) and these tools need to be integrated in order to be able to support IT processes that span technologies and functional areas effectively.
We call RapidInsight "an integration, automation and presentation suite for IT operations management", typically used to integrate management information from disparate management systems and present to users through a simple, unified, consistent web based user interface.
RapidInsight adds to event correlation/management approach by consolidating not only events but all information related to IT operations management from different management systems.
What do we mean by that? RapidInsight OpenNMS integration serves as a good example of the differences. With events, the integration typically refers to sending traps from one management system to the other. This is in fact the available integration between OpenNMS and Netcool (or Smarts), where OpenNMS sends traps to Netcool using scriptd. and a Netcool probe processes traps to create/clear events in Netcool. read more »

