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HP SIM VMware esx 3 free vmfs space

Rob Mokkink — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:03:17 GMT

I installed HP SIM agent on the esx 3 server.
But i am not getting diskspace treshold warnings.
I create a .vmdk which utilizes 97% of the free disk space.
On standard windows boxes i do get the warnings.

How has the solution for me.

Re: HP SIM VMware esx 3 free vmfs space

Rob Buxton — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:17:27 GMT

It works here so I'd check the following;
SNMP correctly configured to send traps to HPSIM Server
Latest version of the agents installed - 7.60B for ESX 3.0.1

Re: HP SIM VMware esx 3 free vmfs space

Rob Mokkink — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:54:03 GMT

Yup hpsim is installed correctly latest version.
(like i have done many times at different places)

When i reboot the esx server i get a response from hp sim.

I think it has to do with the fact that they didn't install ssh that comes along with hp sim install???

Re: HP SIM VMware esx 3 free vmfs space

Rob Buxton — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:40:11 GMT

No, ssh is not used in this, it's snmp sending the trap back to the hpsim server.
You should have a couple of lines like the following in /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

trapcommunity public
trapsink myhpsimserver.com public

public may be different if you've changes the default ro community name.

The fact HPSIM picks up a server being shutdown relies on the HPSIM server pinging the VMHost server. The traffic from the HP Agent is the other way.

Re: HP SIM VMware esx 3 free vmfs space

Rob Mokkink — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:46:53 GMT

I will test further tomorrow.
We have setup disk treshold correctly, so i am really suprised i don't seen anything from the esx servers.

I didn't import the vmware-mibs, because i am not interested in vmware related traps only the service console.

Re: HP SIM VMware esx 3 free vmfs space

Rob Buxton — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:16:43 GMT

You'll only get a trap sent when the threshold is crossed or when the agents restart.

I don't think you don't need the VMWare MIBs unless you're sending traps from VirtualCentre.

Re: HP SIM VMware esx 3 free vmfs space

Rob Mokkink — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:13:16 GMT

Okay,

Will test it now, hope it works ok.