topic Re: What defines a VM host ? in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

What defines a VM host ?

Mikael Rönnbäck — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:55:28 GMT

We have several GSX, ESX and VMWare servers in our environment. The GSX and ESX are picked up without a problem by SIM, but the VMWare servers are more kind of "randomly" detected.
So I was wondering what is it that SIM looks for when it decides a machine is a virtual host ? Since we have installed all the VMWare servers in a similar way as far as I know, there have been no special modifications to the hosts or their agents, but only some machines that run VMWare server are detected as virtual hosts and I would like to have them all in SIM, not just some of them.
So what is the deciding factor here ?

Re: What defines a VM host ?

Rider — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:01:13 GMT

Hi,

VM Host should be installed with HP Agents. SNMP string as to be set correctly on both CMS and as well as VM Server to get identified as VM host in HPSM.

Re: What defines a VM host ?

Mikael Rönnbäck — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:17:57 GMT

"VM Host should be installed with HP Agents."
Yes, we have installed a server, we have installed the HP agents and we have installed VMWare server, and then we repeated this on another server, and only one of them shows up in SIM, so do you mind clarifying what you mean by this ?

"SNMP string as to be set correctly on both CMS and as well as VM Server to get identified as VM host in HPSM."
Thank you, that could be what I'm looking for but what SNMP string do you refer to ?

Re: What defines a VM host ?

Rider — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:52:03 GMT

The string refers to "SNMP community String" which requries to collect the data from SNMP HP agents, to get identified as VM host. Which as to same on CMS and Vm server.

Re: What defines a VM host ?

Mikael Rönnbäck — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:11:01 GMT

Oh, that, well SNMP is properly and identically configured on both a working machine and a machine where SIM does not detect VMWare, so that is not it.

Re: What defines a VM host ?

Mikael Rönnbäck — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:32:50 GMT

Maybe I should add that SIM detects all hardware info, and all software info via SIM, except the only thing that it does not find that VMWare is installed.