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HP SIM 4.2 & Managed nodes on Linux

Amy Bach_1 — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:51:21 GMT

Hi all,

I have just installed HP SIM 4.2 on one of our servers and I am having a difficult time getting a DL145 to show up correctly on HP SIM. This is the information that it shows:
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Address 192.168.73.189
Preferred System Name opetron
Network Name opetron
DNS Name opetron
Serial Number
System Type Unknown
System Subtype None
Product Model
Contact Root (configure /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf)
Administrator
Location Unknown (edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf)
Asset Number
Hardware Description Linux opetron 2.4.21-9.EL #1 Thu Jan 8 17:03:13 EST 2004 i686
OS Name
OS For Tool Filtering
OS Version
OS Description
Management Protocols HTTP:, SMH:2.0, SSH:SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.6.1p2

Status Information

Hardware Status from ping
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From this I can see that it is obtaining its hardwared information from ping and not SNMP. The HP SIM 4.2 user guide doesn't really mention much about configuring SNMP. The user guide talks about uncommenting some lines regarding trapsink and rocommunity, however, on my linux distro these lines do not appear. I added them manually, stopped and restarted hpasm, but still no luck. Also if I try to execute something like hplog -t or hplog -f the command just hangs. I try to run cpqilmview and I get the following:
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"ERROR: cpqilmview requires the module hpasmd to be running"

I then do /etc/rc.d/init.d/hpasm start

"Starting Proliant System Health Monitor (hpasmd):Proliant System Monitor"

# ./cpqilmview

"ERROR: cpqilmview requires the module hpasmd to be running"

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I stopped and restarted hpasm several times but doesn't seem to help. Is there a document that explains the "hpasm configure" command? The HP SIM user guide doesn't really mention anything about hpasm.

Attached is a session from "hpasm configure", I am not really sure how to answer these prompts and I can't find documentation either.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Amy

Re: HP SIM 4.2 & Managed nodes on Linux

Aravindh Rajaram — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:39:18 GMT

If I remember correctly, there was a similar question in the forum about installing SNMP agents on DL140. There is some concern using the agents on these series of servers.

Here is a link to that thread.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1119530104579+28353475&threadId=685479

Re: HP SIM 4.2 & Managed nodes on Linux

Rick Garland — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:36:43 GMT

The snmp needs to be installed on the Linux system. Verify with 'rpm -qa | grep -i snmp'.

For the snmp config on Linux, here is a short simple config - attached.

Make the necessary changes for your environment

Re: HP SIM 4.2 & Managed nodes on Linux

David Claypool — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:27:32 GMT

ProLiant 100 series systems have a different level of manageability than ProLiant 300/500/700 or BladeSystem servers. The ProLiant Support Pack (which includes hpasm) is not for the 100 series which explains some of your errors.

When running Windows, HP SIM gets information from the ProLiant 100 series using WMI, the Microsoft implementation of WBEM. There are open source WBEM implementations of WBEM for Linux from both the OpenPegasus and OpenWBEM projects.