Forwarding alerts to a 3rd party monitoring tool

I'd like to be able to forward alerts recieved by the Enterprise Controller to our Unicenter NSM server. I have no desire to use Ops Center's incident assignment capabilities.
Has anyone managed to forward alerts from Ops Center to a 3rd party monitoring tool ?

Since posting my question, I have found this possible solution...
http://www.halcyoninc.com/products/NeuronIntegration/index.php
Halcyon appear to be an Oracle partner who have developed a product which integrates OC with popular 3rd party tools.
I see also that a user by the name of 'halcyon' sometimes posts in this forum, so I'm guessing that's them also.
Obviously this is a commercial solution and won't come for free, but I have struggled to figure out how this can be achieved independently. As you say, there are lots of questions and documentation is sparse. I'd prefer not to make a career out of it. ;)
The integration of OC with our Unicenter NSM tool with be my highest priority for when I get back from Xmas vacation in mid January. I will post up any useful information I discover.
Edited by: graham1137 on Dec 30, 2012 2:40 PM

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