topic Re: SIM - which agents on server in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

SIM - which agents on server

Peter H. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:23:39 GMT

Hi

I have installed SIM 5.2, some Servers in my network are identified as servers, some are not. Which agents do I have to install, that servers are detected as servers?

Best Regards

Re: SIM - which agents on server

marsh_1 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:05:49 GMT

peter,

what kind of servers are these ? if you have snmp enabled on these servers and the community strings match with those in hp sim with at least read hp sim should be able to tell what they are when it discovers them.
there are hp insight management agents for all of HP's supported os'es windows,linux,hp-ux,openvms and tru64 unix on HP hardware. all these are available from the hp web site with their installation instruction s and how to get them talking to HP SIM.

good luck

Re: SIM - which agents on server

Peter H. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:53:25 GMT

The servers are DL380 G3, G4 and G5.
SNMP configuration seems to be ok. I have installed HP System Management Homepage, Array utilities and Integrated Management Log Viewer.
In HP SIM they are not identified as server.
Do I have to install another agent for correct identification?

Re: SIM - which agents on server

marsh_1 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:58:14 GMT

peter,

for full management etc install the agents, but hp sim should be able to identify hp proliant servers as servers plus os and other basic info just with correctly configured snmp settings. double chack the snmp strings/settings delete the systems affected in hp sim and get it to rediscover them.

Re: SIM - which agents on server

David Claypool — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:52:16 GMT

Without the ProLiant Support Pack, HP SIM can get only basic information with a server using SNMP. HP SIM has a function called "Initial ProLiant Support Pack Install" on the Deploy menu that will push out the necessary drivers and agents.

Re: SIM - which agents on server

siaw — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:13:41 GMT

Hi David, Please my SIM 5.2 server has seen all our physical and virtual servers, but we can not set threshold and get SNMP traps sent to SIM. How do we install SIM agent on the virtual machine as they are not proliant. Many thanks in Advance.

Eben