topic Re: HP SIM can't correctly identify ESX servers in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

HP SIM can't correctly identify ESX servers

Sean Carolan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:53:54 GMT

We have an enclosure of C-class blade servers, some of which are running VMWare ESX server 3.0. I have installed the HP VMM pack, disabled firewalls, and configured SNMP on all ESX servers yet HP SIM still can't seem to figure out that these are C-blades in a particular rack. Under the rack view, I see this:

A7_CBlade1_12-FRONT (ProLiant BL465c G1)
A7_CBlade1_13-FRONT (ProLiant BL465c G1)

instead of the expected server hostname. What's frustrating is that the "unknown" server s have the same serial numbers as the ESX boxes already in my SIM database!

How do I either merge these together, or get SIM to properly recognize what they are?

Re: HP SIM can't correctly identify ESX servers

David Claypool — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:36:54 GMT

Turn off 'discover blades when their iLO is discovered' to make these phantom hosts not show up. You'll have to delete them manually if they've already shown up.

Re: HP SIM can't correctly identify ESX servers

Sean Carolan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:04:23 GMT

Thanks, David. You're a gentleman and a scholar. I'm able to delete the "phantom" blades, now how do I convince HP SIM that my ESX servers live in the C-class enclosure?