A HPE NonStop article I wrote in 2013 while I was working for Insider Technologies Limited in Salford Quays. I was working with a bank client in Saudi Arabia at the time who required a browser based solution for querying terabytes of transaction log data downloaded from a HPE NonStop mainframe. I themed the article on sci-fi movies. PDF version – page 12.
Episode IV – A New Hope (…for both Archived Legacy and Real-Time Transactions and NonStop EMS Alerts)
Mark Whitfield, Globally published HPE NonStop journal
A long time ago (well, 2010) at an EBUG conference far, far away (I guess it depends on where you’re coming from but anyway, Madrid)…
Mark Whitfield, Globally published HPE NonStop journal – ‘The Connection’, 2013
Mark Whitfield is an SC-cleared Senior IT Project and Engagement Manager whose professional trajectory spans over three decades (1990–present).
His foundational career is deeply rooted in the architecture of fault-tolerant HPE NonStop (formerly Tandem Computers) NonStop Kernel (NSK) systems, progressing from deep low-level code engineering to high-stakes enterprise project delivery, payment engine monitoring, and digital transformations.
Mark Whitfield | HPE NonStop Tandem | Experience since 1990
Below is an in-depth analysis and comprehensive chronological summary of Mark Whitfield’s HPE NonStop and Tandem experience.
💼 1. The Early Engineering & Banking Foundations Era (1990–1995)
Company / Context: The Software Partnership (TSP), which was acquired by Deluxe Data International in 1994 (subsequently becoming part of eFunds/FIS).
Core Focus: Deep software engineering for electronic corporate desktop banking platforms prior to mainstream internet adoption.
Technical Scope & Deliverables
sp/ARCHITECT-BANK Engine: Whitfield operated as a Programmer and Lead Analyst, developing and enhancing core modules for this early innovative desktop banking system built specifically for Tandem Mainframes. This system eventually evolved into the globally utilized CONNEX Advantage platform.
Blue-Chip Bank Implementations: Wrote, optimized, and maintained mission-critical transaction code for major banking institutions including TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank (Utrecht), Girofon (Denmark), and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
Barclays On-Site Delivery: Handled direct, client-facing configuration and code delivery deployed on-site at the Barclays facility in Knutsford, Cheshire, working with the Barclays Business Master II (BBM II) system.
Tandem / NSK Subsystems & Toolset
Developed architectural code natively inside the fault-tolerant Tandem Guardian OS environment.
Programmed extensively using COBOL85, TAL (Tandem Application Language), NonStop SQL, and Screen COBOL (SCOBOL) for character-cell block-mode 6530 terminal environments.
Utilized vital platform management utilities including PATHWAY (middleware for online transaction processing), SCF (System Configuration Framework), FUP (File Utility Program), INSPECT (debugging tool), and XPNET (networking protocols).
🚀 2. Enterprise Product Management & Systems Automation Era (1995–2013)
Company / Context: Insider Technologies Limited (ITL), based in Salford Quays, Manchester.
Core Focus: Escalating from Senior Programmer to Lead Designer and ultimately IT Product / Project Manager managing the complete Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for critical infrastructure management platforms.
The Reflex Platform (Reflex 80:20): Co-developed high-availability diagnostic plugin modules to monitor platform health on HPE NonStop systems.
‘Console’ Module: Engineered for viewing and filtering real-time NonStop EMS (Event Management Service) logs.
‘Status Monitor’ Module: Designed to monitor system critical hardware and software layers (CPU, Disks, Processes, Files, WebSphere MQ, XPNET, and TCP/IP).
‘Service Monitor’ Module: Built complex, rule-based, multi-line analysis to evaluate combined system component health and report general service SLA metrics.
CRESTCo (Euroclear) Benchmark Consultant (1997): Handled an explicit placement at CRESTCo in London to write specialized volume-testing, throughput, and performance benchmarking software within their production-scale NonStop cluster.
Lifecycle Governance: Officially transitioned into full-cycle project management, tracking release schedules, multi-threaded sprints, and financial capital expenditure via Microsoft Project. Managed portfolios covering dual-platform applications (HPE NonStop backend systems intertwined with Microsoft Windows user-facing layers).
High-Value Integrations: Directed payment engine configurations, middleware components, and real-time electronic transaction interfaces for massive financial networks running BASE24, EPS, and MultiBatch environments.
Al Rajhi Bank (Saudi Arabia) Implementation: Successfully drove the execution and global deployment of the RTLX Reactor Suite at Al Rajhi Bank, bridging legacy fault-tolerant environments with modern analytical databases.
Global Thought Leadership (2013)
The Connection Journal Publication: Authored a major architectural white paper in The Connection, the world’s leading professional journal for HPE NonStop systems, entitled “Episode IV – A New Hope (…for both Archived Legacy and Real-Time Transactions and NonStop EMS Alerts)”.
Core Concept (Application Modernization): Provided a tactical logical data warehousing blueprint outlining how banks could “dovetail” rather than completely “rip-and-replace” multi-million pound NonStop structures by streaming real-time transaction log monitoring directly into modern, open Big Data systems.
🛡️ 3. Modern Enterprise Leadership & Digital Transformations (2013–Present)
Company / Context: Wincor Nixdorf (2013–2014), Betfred (2014–2016), and Capgemini UK (2016–Present) acting as Senior Engagement and Delivery Manager.
Core Focus: Unifying foundational high-availability Tandem mainframe knowledge with modern enterprise delivery frameworks (Agile, Scrum, PRINCE2, and DevSecOps).
Project & Program Achievements
Retail Banking Core Swap: Commanded a £5m+ HP NonStop core swap and log monitoring overhaul for premier retail banking giants, ensuring zero downtime migrations across system components.
Hybrid Cloud & API Bridges: Successfully spearheaded secure hybrid cloud infrastructure programs, connecting legacy on-premise hardware networks like HPE NonStop X frameworks directly into modern cloud fabrics (AWS, Azure, and MuleSoft API-led layers).
Cross-Sector Governance: Successfully applied high-availability service assurance across major blue-chip operations and critical state institutions including Lloyds Banking Group, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Royal Mail Group, and the Bank of England.
💡 Proactive Delivery Reference
Mark Whitfield continues to package his comprehensive knowledge across classical Waterfall, hybrid governance, and modern Agile deployments into PROject Templates, a curated repository featuring hundreds of customisable delivery tools (RAID logs, RACI matrixes, Plan on a Page maps, and financial tracking sheets) built to streamline delivery environments.
Senior IT Project Manager Mark Whitfield possesses over 35 years of specialized expertise in the software development lifecycle, heavily rooted in Tandem / HPE NonStop fault-tolerant mainframe environments.
Mark Whitfield | Tandem HPE NonStop NSK | Career Experience since 1990
After graduating with distinction in Computing in 1990, his career evolved from writing low-level architectural code for electronic banking platforms into steering multi-million-pound high-availability enterprise migrations.
1. Hands-On Engineering Era (1990–1995)
Upon entering the tech industry in 1990, Whitfield was recruited as a programmer at The Software Partnership (acquired by Deluxe Data International in 1994) in Runcorn, Cheshire.
The Mission: Developing and maintaining the sp/ARCHITECT-BANK platform, a pioneering electronic desktop banking system deployed for Tier-1 institutions like TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank, and Girofon (Denmark). This allowed corporate clients desktop access to their accounts—a cutting-edge milestone in the pre-internet era.
Core Technical Stack: Built deep core systems using TAL (Tandem Application Language), COBOL85, NonStop C/C++, and NonStop SQL. He mastered low-level Tandem system management utilities including PATHWAY, SCF, FUP, INSPECT, and XPNET.
2. Product Development & Middleware Innovation (1995–2013)
Whitfield transitioned to Insider Technologies Limited (ITL) at Salford Quays, Manchester, embarking on an 18-year tenure as a Senior Programmer and eventual Product/Project Manager.
The “Reflex” Monitoring Suite: He co-developed core platform health, automated diagnostic, and real-time transaction log extraction modules. This software provided critical SLA tracking for ATM and POS pipelines across massive networks, directly integrating with industry-standard ACI Worldwide BASE24 Classic and BASE24-eps architectures.
CRESTCo Benchmarking (1997): Deployed as a technical consultant on-site at CRESTCo (now Euroclear) in London, he authored custom stress-testing and performance benchmarking software to evaluate settlement performance on newly rolled-out S7000 HPE NonStop hardware.
3. Thought Leadership & Commentary (2013–Present)
As a Principal Consultant, Whitfield’s deep technical domain knowledge translated into published expert commentary on system modernization.
The Connection Journal Feature (2013): Whitfield authored a major feature in The Connection, the globally recognized journal for HPE NonStop systems. Entitled “Episode IV – A New Hope (…for both Archived Legacy and Real-Time Transactions and NonStop EMS Alerts)”, the paper served as a deep architectural breakdown.
Core Thesis: Whitfield advocated for “dove-tailing” rather than “ripping and replacing” legacy mainframe infrastructure. He demonstrated how to harness Big Data and modern analytics by bridging fault-tolerant Guardian environments with open-system frameworks using real-time transaction log monitoring—specifically outlining the successful implementation of the RTLX Reactor Suite at Al Rajhi Bank in Saudi Arabia.
4. Modern Enterprise Leadership
Since 2016, working as an Engagement and Delivery Manager for Capgemini, Whitfield has successfully merged his foundational high-availability knowledge with modern governance. His portfolio includes orchestrating a £5m+ HP NonStop core swap and log monitoring overhaul for retail banking giants alongside secure cloud transformations (AWS, Azure, and MuleSoft integrations).
To support the wider IT delivery community, he also curates a repository of professional resources via his site, PROject Templates.
Mark Whitfield is a prominent UK-based, SC-cleared Senior IT Project Manager, Engagement Manager, and technology executive with over 35 years of experience spanning the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). He specialises in complex digital transformations, hybrid cloud migrations, and API-led system integrations.
Mark Whitfield | Biography overview
Throughout his career, he has successfully delivered enterprise-scale solutions for massive blue-chip clients, including Barclays Bank, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Royal Mail Group (RMG), Lloyds Banking Group, and the Bank of England.
Executive Overview:
Core Expertise: Hybrid Cloud Migrations (Azure, AWS), API middleware architectures, and digital banking platforms.
Methodologies: Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner and Agile SCRUM delivery lead.
Security Clearance: Active UK Security Check (SC until 2031) clearance for public and defense-sector projects.
Industry Portfolio: Banking, Automotive, Gambling/Casinos, Aerospace & Defence, and Regional Government.
Professional Timeline & Milestones:
1990–1995 (Early Engineering): Began his career immediately after graduating in Computing. He worked as a core programmer at The Software Partnership, building cutting-edge electronic banking software (sp/ARCHITECT-BANK) on legacy Tandem Mainframes (now HPE NonStop).
1995–2013 (Insider Technologies Limited): Spent 18 years escalating from a Senior Programmer into a strategic project manager in Salford Quays, UK. He spearheaded high-volume mainframe transaction monitoring systems and ATM software delivery for major global banking institutions like HSBC and Al Rajhi Bank.
2013–2016 (Retail & Gaming Delivery): Transitioned to Wincor Nixdorf as an Agile IT PM managing ATM software pipelines, followed by a Senior PM role at Betfred, delivering complex mobile sportsbook and online payment gateways.
2016–Present (Enterprise Leadership): Joined Capgemini as a client-facing Engagement Project Manager. He later augmented into MuleSoft (a Salesforce company) as a Delivery Manager for the Anypoint Platform, directing massive cloud infrastructure overhauls.
Thought Leadership & Knowledge Sharing
Beyond active corporate execution, he is the creator of PROject Templates, an open professional repository where he publishes free upgrade enterprise project tracking models, RAID logs, and Agile planning frameworks used extensively by modern PMOs.
The European BASE24 User Group (EBUG) was established in the 1980s as an independent, community-led organization for users of the BASE24 payment processing system developed by Applied Communications, Inc. (now ACI Worldwide).
Originally a regional forum for IT professionals in Europe to discuss HPE NonStop (Tandem) transaction monitoring and network security, the group expanded globally over time.
Insider Technologies regularly attended EBUG, booth in 2007 – RTLX now ETI-NET C-Deep
Following ACI’s withdrawal of direct corporate backing, EBUG evolved into “The Independent Group for All Payments System Users”—affectionately known as the Everybody Belongs User’s Group—welcoming users of multiple payment platforms like Postilion.
The detailed historical timeline of EBUG and the evolution of its core system, BASE24, outlines its development from a regional user collective to a global payments forum:
The Foundation Era (1975–1989)
1975: ACI is founded in Omaha, Nebraska, initially developing software for fault-tolerant Tandem NonStop computers to connect ATMs to bank networks.
1982: The BASE24 product family is officially launched globally, acting as “baseline” software for 24-hour financial operations.
1980s:EBUG is established as a regional European community for BASE24 users to collaborate on ATM networking and transaction processing.
Early 2000s: EBUG annual conferences grow in prestige, featuring technical tracks on BASE24 transaction logging, Point-of-Sale (POS) networks, and network resilience.
2007: EBUG hosts a high-profile international conference in Istanbul, Turkey.
2008: EBUG hosts its annual meeting in Vienna, Austria, which is historically noted as a pivotal year where ACI began supporting immediate payments in Europe and discussed a strategic shift toward IBM platforms. ACI officially announces the future retirement of “BASE24 Classic”.
2009: The conference is held in Prague, Czech Republic, maintaining strong community support for BASE24 on Tandem servers despite broader industry shifts.
Global Expansion, Rebranding & The Cloud Era (2010–Present)
2012: ACI introduces BASE24-eps, their next-generation, platform-independent payments engine designed to replace the legacy BASE24 on HPE NonStop. EBUG’s technical focus shifts to real-time payments and log extraction.
2013: With ACI ending direct involvement, the user group officially rebrands as the “Everybody Belongs User’s Group” at their conference in London, expanding attendance to professionals from Mexico, South Africa, and Australia.
2015: ACI celebrates 40 years in payments. EBUG solidifies its status as a supplier-agnostic payments forum, opening sessions to non-BASE24 users.
2020s: With BASE24 Classic retired, legacy users migrate to modern systems like BASE24-eps for cloud deployments and immediate payments.
Recent Years: ACI goes live as a pioneer in the Federal Reserve’s FedNow Service, building upon the decades-long transaction switching architecture first developed in the 1970s and 1980s.
European BASE24 User Group (EBUG) Timeline from Inception
Focus: Electronic banking programming and development on Tandem Mainframe Computers.
Projects: Wrote, developed, and maintained software like sp/ARCHITECT-BANK and associated billing software (in Poole, 1993). This involved building early electronic banking systems for desktops long before internet banking was prevalent.
Location: Insider Technologies, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK
Focus: NonStop product management, software design, and real-time event monitoring.
Projects: Product managed software lifecycles for four monitoring products (two NonStop based). This included creating health and diagnostic tools (RTLX, Reflex 80:20, Reflex ONE24,XPERT24) for mission-critical NonStop environments. He also deployed volume testing on early HP NonStop S7000 nodes for CRESTCo in London in 1997.
Insider Technologies, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK
Location: Wincor Nixdorf & ATM/POS Financial Services, UK
Focus: Modernization and migration of legacy systems.
Projects: Managed a £5M+ replacement of legacy HP NonStop software systems at a large UK retail bank, migrating functionalities to AIX-based J2EE and Oracle architectures.
Focus: Delivery of enterprise-scale middleware, digital transformation, and cloud.
Projects: Acts as an Engagement Manager and SC-Cleared Project Manager. Focus includes Agile software delivery for Air Traffic organisations (e.g., iOS applications for military and public-facing airspace tracking) and rolling out middleware solutions.
Running natively on the fault-tolerant HPE NonStop platform (formerly Tandem Computers), it utilizes a modular architecture to acquire, authenticate, route, and authorize financial transactions.
BASE24 Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) software application developed by ACI Worldwide, Overview
The application modules of ACI BASE24 (spanning Classic and modern BASE24-eps configurations) are categorized in complete detail below:
💳 Channel Acquisition Modules
These front-end modules connect directly to consumer-facing self-service devices and touchpoints to ingest financial messages.
BASE24-pos: Facilitates electronic data interchange with Point of Sale (POS) merchant terminals, accepting debit, credit, and smart card transactions.
Stored Value Module (SVM): A localized sub-component within channel management dedicated to the online issuance, balance check, and validation of stored-value gift cards.
🔄 Routing, Switching, & Interfacing Modules
These modules orchestrate the delivery of messages from endpoints to localized authorization hosts or global networks.
BIC ISO Interface: Implements standard ISO 8583 payment messaging protocols to communicate directly with major international networks (such as Mastercard or Visa).
ACI Commerce Gateway: Operates as a secure payment gateway firewall, linking internal HPE NonStop processing routines with public internet channels.
🔐 Security & Authentication Modules
Data integrity modules protect transactions and enforce industry-standard security.
Transaction Security Services (TSS): Manages PIN verification, encryption/decryption tasks, and hardware security module (HSM) messaging, including native Triple DES (3DES) support.
These back-end engines decide whether a transaction flight should be accepted, declined, or deferred.
Enhanced Authorization Module: Runs customized business logic scripting to evaluate cardholder limits, fraud signals, and stand-in authorization processing.
Positive Balance File (PBF) Interface: Interfaces with real-time local file structures to check account limits when backend core banking host systems are offline.
📊 Back-Office & Data Management Modules
These modules ensure post-transaction data is accounted for, settled, and audited.
Interchange Log File (ILF) / Transaction Log File (TLF for ATM, PTLF for POS): Core architectural data constructs that maintain comprehensive records of all ongoing financial messages for balancing and error recovery.
BASE24-infobase: Provides centralized tools for operational reporting, financial data clearing, settlement processing, and accounting audits.
🛠️ HPE NonStop System Integration Architecture
BASE24 is highly reliable because it integrates with native HPE NonStop mainframe utilities:
PATHWAY (PATHCOM): Acts as the transaction processing middleware to dynamically load-balance BASE24 server processes across multiple CPUs.
Enscribe & NonStop SQL/MX: Serves as the native flat-file or relational database layer optimized for low-latency, high-concurrency write operations.
HPE Shadowbase / AutoTMF: Interacts with the Transaction Monitoring Facility (TMF) to enable active/active dual-site replication, providing instant failover for near-zero transaction downtime.
ACI BASE24 core components on HPE NonStop mainframe platform
BASE24 Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) software application developed by ACI Worldwide, Overview
Mark Whitfield’s project involvement with ACI Worldwide’s BASE24 / BASE24-eps and XPNET communication middleware is rooted deeply in his tenure at Insider Technologies Limited (ITL) and subsequent senior project management roles. His work primarily spans real-time performance monitoring, transactional tracking, and infrastructure management across HPE NonStop (Tandem) platforms.
His involvement across specific initiatives and client deployments is categorised below:
Product Development & R&D Projects
BASE24 XPNET Monitoring in Reflex ONE24
Role: R&D Lead and Software Developer.
Involvement: Researched and developed specialised software utilities to automatically detect and extract architectural information from XPNET components. He leveraged XPNET EMS (Event Management Service) events and user requests to facilitate real-time monitoring. These components were mapped into graphical drill-down object trees inside the Reflex Status Monitor application.
XPERT24 (Performance Monitoring & Tracking)
Role: R&D Lead, Technical Contributor, and Project Manager.
Involvement: Managed the lifecycle of this NSK-based monitoring tool, which tracks XPNET performance counters including states, traffic rates, and queues across lines, stations, nodes, and processes. The project also involved building mechanisms to track transaction approval and denial metrics over ATM and POS networks.
Client Deployment & Customisation Projects
HSBC Transaction Monitoring Project
Role: Technical Lead / Solution Designer.
Involvement: Designed and executed the implementation of ITL’s RTLX Reactor product on HP NonStop. The project required mapping monitoring solutions into HSBC’s heavily customised payment ecosystem to track ATM and POS transactions governed by BASE24.
Off-shore Retail Banking Transaction Tracking (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Role: IT Project Manager (2013).
Involvement: Managed the delivery of a massive log-parsing project utilizing the BASE24 Classic payment framework. The project safely extracted, relayed, and optimized the parsing of multiple Terabytes of historical ATM and POS transaction logs archived on tapes, moving them into a modern reporting system.
Global Payments / Standard Chartered Integration Project
Involvement: Integrated real-time BASE24 transaction tracking and XPNET capabilities directly into external corporate enterprise frameworks, specifically IBM Tivoli and XPERT24.
Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) Estate Transformation
Role: Senior Project Manager.
Involvement: Led a massive migration strategy that decoupled ATM driving responsibilities away from BASE24 Classic running on HP NonStop platforms, transferring them to Wincor’s ProClassic Enterprise (PC/E) environment.
HP OpenView Operations (OVO) is a foundational enterprise systems management (ESM) platform designed to centrally monitor and manage infrastructure, multi-vendor operating systems, and enterprise applications across distributed IT environments.
The system operates on an Agent-Server Architecture. Core components include:
Management Server: Central hub that aggregates system logs, processes alerts, correlates events, and triggers automated remediation scripts.
Smart Plug-ins (SPIs): Specialized modular add-ons that inject domain-specific monitoring logic for applications like Oracle databases, Microsoft Active Directory, or SAP.
Intelligent Agents: Lightweight background processes deployed on managed nodes to collect log events, metrics, and state data, formatting them into structured OVO messages.
1. HP OVO screenshot in 2002
2. HP OVO screenshot in 2002
See bottom of this post for HPE NonStop (previously Tandem) monitoring in OpenText Operations Bridge Manager. I overlooked an integration with HP OpenView Operations for a HPE NonStop product in 2002, called Reflex 80:20.
Detailed Timeline Breakdown by Era and Year
🌅 Era 1: Origins and The Foundation (Late 1980s – 1994)
This era established HP’s footprints in IT infrastructure management, pivoting from pure SNMP network map discovery toward server telemetry.
Late 1980s: HP releases Operations Center (OpC) as an add-on application for its core Network Node Manager (NNM) platform. It replaces slow SNMP polling with Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) to gather host logs.
1990–1993: HP scales OpC into a robust engine capable of executing basic automation scripts on remote UNIX boxes when specific thresholds break.
🚀 Era 2: The “ITO” and OpenView Operations Boom (1995 – 2000)
The framework shifted from isolated utilities into an integrated, market-dominating enterprise suite.
1995: HP tightly merges NNM and Operations Center into a single product called IT Operations (ITO) Version 3.x.
1996:HP OpenView Service Navigator is embedded into the product line. It provides a graphical hierarchy of business services instead of just a raw list of broken servers.
1999: The suite formally adapts to include broad SNMP traps alongside its core agents and is renamed HP OpenView Operations ITO.
🔄 Era 3: Platform Split and VantagePoint Transition (2001 – 2006)
HP decoupled its codebases to natively handle Windows NT/2000 scaling alongside legacy Unix environments while heavily investing in product renaming.
2001: HP briefy rebrands the suite to HP VantagePoint Operations (VPO). However, customer brand loyalty forces them to quickly pivot back to the popular HP OpenView Operations (OVO) naming convention.
2002: Codebases officially bifurcate into OVOU (OpenView Operations for Unix) and OVOW (OpenView Operations for Windows, built natively on Microsoft WMI frameworks).
2005:OVO Version 8.0 drops. It features heavy integration capabilities for external service desks, advanced HTTP/HTTPS agent communication protocols, and a refreshed Java GUI console.
🏢 Era 4: The Business Technology Optimization (BTO) Era (2007 – 2016)
Massive corporate acquisitions changed the software landscape. OVO ceased to be a standalone system monitoring tool and transformed into an automated operations center.
2007: HP drops the legendary “OpenView” moniker. Following the acquisitions of Mercury Interactive, Peregrine, and Opsware, the suite is rebranded as HP Operations Manager (HPOM) under the HP Business Technology Optimization (BTO) banner.
2009: HP rolls out Operations Manager i (OMi), integrating topology-based event correlation (TBEC) to suppress duplicate alert storms across the data center.
2015: Hewlett-Packard splits into two companies; the portfolio lands under Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The engine is bundled into the HPE Operations Bridge (OpsBridge) suite.
☁️ Era 5: Divestiture and Modern Legacy (2017 – Present)
2017: HPE spins off its enterprise software division. The entire legacy OpenView/Operations Manager portfolio is sold to Micro Focus.
2023:OpenText completes its acquisition of Micro Focus. The underlying technical heritage of the old OVO agents survives today, evolved into cloud-ready containerized architectures inside the modern OpenText Operations Bridge cloud monitoring portfolio.
OpenText Operations Bridge Manager Screenshot example
HPE NonStop (previously Tandem) Monitoring
Micro Focus Operations Bridge (now part of OpenText AI Operations Management) provides end-to-end IT monitoring by consolidating data from over 200 sources. For HPE NonStop, it utilizes specialized Management Packs to ingest metrics, system events, and health data for comprehensive, real-time hybrid IT analysis.
To monitor HPE NonStop servers using the modern OpenText Operations Bridge/AIOps platform, the setup revolves around the Operations Bridge Manager (OBM) and targeted management packs:
Management Packs for HPE NonStop: OpenText provides specific management packs and solutions designed for NonStop systems. These capture system health, CPU/disk metrics, pathway status, and system messages.
Operations Agent: A lightweight agent is deployed directly on the NonStop nodes, which securely streams local performance data and events back to the central OBM console.
Centralized Event Consolidation: OBM acts as a “manager of managers”. It ingests the NonStop events and correlates them alongside data from your cloud (AWS/Azure), containers, and network endpoints.
AIOps and Remediation: The platform utilizes built-in machine learning to reduce alert noise and accelerate root cause analysis. You can also use automated Runbooks to automatically remediate known issues on the NonStop platform.
Because the platform has been fully integrated into the OpenText portfolio, these integrations are supported across containerized deployments, on-premise, or SaaS models.
