topic Re: SNMP in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

SNMP

Gabe Matteson — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:49:24 GMT

I setup the latest HP SIM and configured one test vmware workstation running windows 2003. I have installed the windows snmp agent and configure it for public and to access connections from any host. is there any other configuration i need to do on the HP SIM side? Does it only work with the HP SNMP? For some reason I can't get it to pull the computer name etc and other hardware items using snmp but WBEM-

Re: SNMP

Rob Buxton — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:26:49 GMT

It's a bit unclear what you've got.
HPSIM uses snmp to identify servers. So in HPSIM under global settings you need to enter the SNMP community details.

On the servers you're discovering you need snmp configured to allow localhost and the HPSIM Server on the community name you used for HPSIM itself.
On windows, HPSIM just uses the standard SNMP service.

In HPSIM Unknown and Unmanaged mean different things. Unknown means HPSIM discovered a protocol but couldn't use it. Unmanaged means it couldn't even get to a protocol.

Re: SNMP

David Claypool — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:27:55 GMT

More specifically, "Unknown" means that HP SIM is able to successfully communicate with a device but did not have a rule with which to classify the device. See information on "System Type Manager" in online help or the Technical Reference Guide from http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim --> Information Library.

Can you be more specific about your configuration? Which ProLiant server and which version of the ProLiant Support Pack? What are you trying to do with VMware workstation? (HP SIM only has knowledge of VMware Server and ESX)

Re: SNMP

Gabe Matteson — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:43:48 GMT

thanks, i was just testing the HSIM to see if this is something we would like to use. I setup the HSIM on vm workstation and an windows 2003 vm workstation just to test with. it does say unknown so it is because it doesn't support workstation? i will try installing an esx guest to test snmp with.

Re: SNMP

Gabe Matteson — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:45:30 GMT

sorry, also i were able to get HP Insight to recognize the ESX servers, but it is not giving information about the guest OS's. It is giving an error about the license that is installed.