topic Re: monitoring non-HP clients in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

monitoring non-HP clients

Harlis Battiste — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:58:43 GMT

I have some adopted IBM and Dell servers that we would like to add to our SIM monitoring (sim 5 sp2).
What capability is there to do this?
are there additional agents that can be added to the non-hp clients?

Re: monitoring non-HP clients

David Claypool — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:00:46 GMT

HP SIM expects that you use the IBM Director agent and the Dell IT Server Administrator respectively on the systems. Configure SNMP to send alerts to HP SIM. Additionally, configure WMI credentials for HP SIM and it will be able to gather inventory information from them.

Re: monitoring non-HP clients

Harlis Battiste — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:17:35 GMT

Niether of these items are in play (Dell or IBM management)

Can I still set snmp to send traps to SIM console?

Re: monitoring non-HP clients

OlivierV — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:28:21 GMT

You can set up and configure SNMP but you won't receive any events that concern Dell or Ibm hardware failures. Only the basic SNMP events will be logged (cold start, link up ..) If you want to receive Dell or Ibm events, you must install the agents on the servers and compile the MIBs.

Re: monitoring non-HP clients

jptr — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:47:44 GMT

In short, whatever traps you can send out of those servers (through vendor agents or some sort of third party tools) can be displayed in SIM, provided you compile the right mibs (to decode those traps)

Re: monitoring non-HP clients

Clemens Maes — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:32:54 GMT

Does anyone knows how to setup IBM Director Agent 5.10 in Linux so I can monitor IBM hardware in HPSIM. This must be possible. I have used this document: l net-snmp 5.2.1. Which mibs are needed for HPSIM?

Re: monitoring non-HP clients

Clemens Maes — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:12:12 GMT

Forgotten the link. I used this document:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/index.jsp?topic=/diricinfo/fqm0_t_enabling_snmp_access_and_trap_forwarding_linux.html