One tool to replace fifty — and deploy in a day
HP OpenView was a suite of 50+ individually licensed products bolted together over 30 years. RightITnow ECM delivers unified IT event management in a single, fast-to-deploy platform.
OpenView wasn't one product. It was a puzzle.
To cover the same ground as a single ECM deployment, HP OpenView required you to purchase, license, integrate, and maintain a suite of individually priced modules — each with its own upgrade cycle and support process.
HP OpenView grew to more than 50 core products through decades of acquisitions. To manage a complex enterprise environment, you needed components like these — each licensed separately, each requiring integration work, each its own maintenance burden:
RightITnow ECM — one platform, one license
Cross-domain event correlation, automated incident lifecycle management, bi-directional ITSM integration, and a single pane of glass across your entire hybrid IT environment. No puzzle required.
The real cost of OpenView complexity
Users and analysts consistently flagged the same frustrations — years before HP finally discontinued it.
HP sold OpenView — it no longer exists in its original form
HP's software division was sold to Micro Focus, and OpenView has since reached End of Life. Running EOL software means no security patches, no new features, and increasing support risk.
"We are constantly in turmoil over HP pricing"
Enterprise customers publicly called out HP's pricing structure as unnecessarily complex, with dozens of separately licensed modules making budget planning and procurement a constant struggle.
Implementation requires many hours of specialist consulting
Integrating the many components of the OpenView suite — each with its own architecture — involves enormous consulting overhead that often dwarfs the license cost itself.
A UI aesthetic from the 1980s
OpenView's interface reflected its Unix origins. Network Node Manager, the core product, was first released in the mid-1980s — and the design philosophy never fully escaped that era.
"It's kind of a nightmare dealing with HP service and support"
Real users reported slow response times, confusing upgrade procedures, and poor knowledge transfer — making it hard to get timely help when things went wrong.
Not built for the infrastructure you run today
OpenView was designed for physical, on-premises infrastructure. Extending it to cover virtualized environments, containers, and cloud services requires additional modules and significant custom integration work.
RightITnow ECM vs. HP OpenView
A direct look at what matters to IT operations teams making the switch.
| Capability | RightITnow ECM | HP OpenView / Micro Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Product status | ✓ Actively developed | ✗ End of Life — sold to Micro Focus |
| Number of products required | ✓ One unified platform | ✗ 50+ individually licensed modules |
| Time to deploy | ✓ Hours to days | ✗ Months of consulting typical |
| Licensing model | ✓ Simple, single license | ✗ Complex per-module pricing |
| Cross-domain event correlation | ✓ Out of the box | Yes, across multiple products + integration effort |
| ITSM / Service Desk integration | ✓ Bi-directional, automated | Requires separate Service Desk module + config |
| Hybrid cloud support | ✓ Native | Partial, requires additional modules |
| Modern UI | ✓ Intuitive, visual interface | ✗ Legacy interface, Unix-era design roots |
| Vendor support quality | ✓ Focused, responsive | ✗ Historically rated as slow and complex |
| Long-term roadmap stability | ✓ Independent, focused vendor | ✗ EOL — migration to new platform required |
What teams say after making the switch
Organizations that consolidated on RightITnow ECM from complex legacy monitoring suites.
"We deployed a central event processing console against our existing legacy systems in record time. RightITnow provided a simple, cost-effective licensing model."
"Our NOC now only watches ECM, which has improved response times. We've unified our workflow across technology areas, which reduced administrative overhead."
"Chronic issues that had been long masked became obvious within days, allowing us to dramatically cut down our event volume — before we'd even trained our team."
From OpenView sprawl to a single console
ECM is designed to consolidate events from your existing monitoring tools — without requiring a rip-and-replace.
Inventory your sources
Map which OpenView modules and other monitoring tools are generating events that your NOC needs to act on.
Connect in hours
ECM's native connectors pull events from SolarWinds, Nagios, SCOM, VMware, CloudWatch, and more — including SNMP and Syslog from legacy infrastructure.
Configure correlation rules
Use ECM's visual interface to set up deduplication, suppression, and cross-domain correlation — no scripting languages required.
Retire the old stack gradually
Run ECM alongside your legacy tools during transition. Decommission OpenView modules as confidence in ECM grows — on your schedule.
Frequently asked questions
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