topic Re: My virtualmachine i unknown in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

My virtualmachine i unknown

Matts_2 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:20:00 GMT

HI

I have lot of virtuals machines on two esx server (3.0.2)
On one of esx server I missing two virtual machine
and it shows up as unknown in SIM and on the other esx server I missing three virtualservers.

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager 2.3
HP Insight Power Manager 1.0
HP Performance Management Pack 4.6
HP Virtual Machine Management Pack 3.0

I have delete the unknown servers and run discovery.

/Matts

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Rider — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:18:21 GMT

Discover VM guest with WBEM. If VM guest are windows install WMI mapper on in and discover. You should get all the info.

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Sean Carolan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:29:24 GMT

I have the same problem - most of my virtual machines are not correctly identified as VMs, even though we have the VMM agent properly installed on our ESX hosts.

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Marco MM — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:37:44 GMT

I have the same problem. I tried to download WMI mapper but it appear to be unavailable on HP site. Could someone give me the correct URL?
Could also someone tell me where I have to install WMI Mapper? On SIM or on VM machine?

PS: I have HP SIM 5.1 SP1.

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Sean Carolan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:06:32 GMT

What's the deal with WMI mapper? Is there any solution for Linux servers? My understanding is WMI is for identifying Microsoft systems.

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Rider — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:47:07 GMT

Hi Sean,

For linux, configure SNMP correctly for HP SIM data Collection.

Marco you can download WMI mapper from below link

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=US&swItem=MTX-aeb689f58db74128b59af142ce

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Rider — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:48:59 GMT

The Mapper to be installed on Virtual Machine to identify as Virtual Machine in HP SIM make sure host is also discovered correctly in HP SIM

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Rob Buxton — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:00:33 GMT

If HPSIM has been installed on a Windows based server then the WMI Mapper is not required. It's only used for non-windows based HPSIM installations.
It doesn't really help the identification of non-windows based guests on ESX servers. SNMP is probably the best way to identify the non-windows guest.

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Sean Carolan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:10:44 GMT

I have SNMP and VMWare tools installed on all my Linux VMWare guests, yet they still do not show up in HP SIM as virtual machines. How can we get them to be identified correctly?

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Marco MM — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:14:03 GMT

Thanks, just configuring WMI credentials in HP SIM and, after a new data collection, all my VMs were correctly imported.

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Rider — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:54:45 GMT

Don't forget to assign the points :-)

Re: My virtualmachine i unknown

Marco MM — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:23:55 GMT

I would but cannot, the post is not mine! ;-)