topic HPSIM 5.1 Reinstall - what do I need to change on the clients? in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

HPSIM 5.1 Reinstall - what do I need to change on the clients?

Raymond Smith II — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:36:59 GMT

I just rebuilt our HPSIM server with the latest version, 5.1.
It is a different IP address and hostname than the previous hpsim server.
What files do I need to change on the LINUX clients?
Thanks!

Re: HPSIM 5.1 Reinstall - what do I need to change on the clients?

Rob Buxton — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:01:13 GMT

SNMP will need to be changed. The Allowed Hosts and Trap destination will need to be updated.

If you're using the HP Agents and Trust By Certificate then you'll need to re-import the new certificate.

Re: HPSIM 5.1 Reinstall - what do I need to change on the clients?

Raymond Smith II — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:28:20 GMT

Rob,

Thanks! I thought I only needed to change /etc/snmpd.conf, but wanted to be sure.
I've included what I thought needed to be changed:
cat /etc/snmpd.conf
# Following entries were added by HP Insight Management Agents at
# Mon May 16 14:47:41 EDT 2005
rwcommunity private 127.0.0.1
rocommunity public 127.0.0.1
rocommunity public 127.0.0.1
rwcommunity private xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
rocommunity public xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
trapcommunity public
trapsink hpserver.domainname.com public
syscontact Sysadmin (root@localhost)
syscontact Sysadmin (root@localhost)
syslocation Room
syslocation Room 111

If this is not right, let me know.

ray

Re: HPSIM 5.1 Reinstall - what do I need to change on the clients?

Rob Buxton — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:23:40 GMT

Yep, on that file the xxx IP address for the HPServer and the Trapsink destination.

As mentioned though you may need to reimport the certificate if you're using trust by certificate.

If you've a lot of servers this can be a pain. The solution I've used is to create a new Baseline in the VCRM of just the SMH and reconfigure this with the new certificate and then redeploy that.
I've never tried it on Linux based hosts though .