topic Re: Management Processor Association Problem in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Management Processor Association Problem

Dave Ostock — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:11:33 GMT

I'm having problems with HPSIM 4.2 losing management processor associations.

I can fix it by manually running "Options-Discovery-Identify Systems" against both "all management processors" and "all servers" lists.

As the day wears on though, the associations start disappearing and by the next day probably less than half are associated.

The interesting thing is the "daily device identification" task doesn't seem to fix the problem. I have to run it manually to fix the associations.

I've read postings about similar problems, but haven't seen any lasting solution. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

Re: Management Processor Association Problem

Ole Thomsen_1 — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:07:46 GMT

The SP1 patch mentioned here <> solved the problem for me.

In my case it apparantly had something to do with the blade/enclosure/rack association issue adressed with the patch, only a few hours after patching and deleting the offending enclosures all associations including iLOs were back up.

Re: Management Processor Association Problem

Dave Ostock — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:41:23 GMT

I was unable to open the link. I checked the HPSIM download page and didn't see any service packs for HPSIM 4.2. Is the service pack you're referring to for HPSIM 4.1?

Thanks,

Dave

Re: Management Processor Association Problem

Darren Z — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:01:43 GMT

Here are the links (found these in another forum post):

Windows Readme

ftp://FTP.compaq.com/PUB/softpaq/sp29001-29500/SP29026.txt

Windows Patch

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/PUB/softpaq/sp29001-29500/SP29026.exe

Re: Management Processor Association Problem

Darren Z — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:03:17 GMT

Ohh... and here a a link to the forum thread. There was an '>' character at the end of the above link.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=822681

Re: Management Processor Association Problem

Dave Ostock — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:07:24 GMT

Thanks guys. I'll try this out andlet everyone know how it goes.

Dave

Re: Management Processor Association Problem

Dave Ostock — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:58:20 GMT

Well I applied the patch and it didn't help. Thanks anyway.

The problem is pretty interesting. We're using a hosts file for discovery and everytime discovery runs we lose most of hte associations. Running the daily device identification task doesn't fix anything. Running discovery identify systems against both server and mgmt processors does fix it though.

I'm going to try removing already discovered servers from the hosts file before running doiscovery and see if that helps

Dave

Re: Management Processor Association Problem

Dave Ostock — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:30:03 GMT

We did some more testing and found a solution to this problem.

We use a hosts file for discovery that always had the complete nodelist we wanted SIM to manage. We found when discovery reran against devices already in SIM the associations would disappear. Also, the daily device identification task wouldn't fix the associations.

To correct this problem we did the following:
1. Only include new devices that haven't been added to SIM in the hosts discovery file.
2. Replace default daily device identification task with 2 new ones. The first one is limited to management processors and the second is limited to servers.

With these changes in place it runs like a champ and all the associations are in good shape.

I hope this helps someone else.

Dave