topic Re: How to detect VM instance OS in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

How to detect VM instance OS

Cheah Tat Yeong — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:15:23 GMT

We have several VMWare ESX virtual instances running. I understand that you need VMM to be able to monitor these virtual instance properly.

What I would like to know is whether it is possible for HP SIM to detect the OS version on these Virtual instances without VSS. Currently, these instances is shown as Unknown, and blank under the OS Name field.

Re: How to detect VM instance OS

Rob Buxton — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:01:38 GMT

That can depend on the OS.
You can use wbem for getting info on Windows servers.
SNMP can be used for other OSes.

Re: How to detect VM instance OS

Cheah Tat Yeong — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:50:51 GMT

These VM instances are running Windows Server and I already have SNMP enabled on these VM instances. is HP SIM able to detect the Windows OS version via SNMP? If so, how?

Re: How to detect VM instance OS

Rob Buxton — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:14:03 GMT

I think so yes.
Just like for a physical server SNMP needs to be configured to have the HPSIM server as an allowed host and the community names need to be correct.