topic Moving blades in an enclosure in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Moving blades in an enclosure

MikeyMike — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:54:46 GMT

New to SIM 5.2 and am trying to figure out what actions need to be taken within SIM following someone moving C-class blades within an enclosure.

We moved a few blades to empty slots and now when I look at the picture of the enclosure within SIM it shows the servers in their original slots. The servers are available but the pic is not updated. I have run Hardware Status Polling Tasks which complete but still no update.

If I log into the OA via IE the picture looks correct there.

What am I missing.

Re: Moving blades in an enclosure

David Claypool — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:35:14 GMT

The task is 'Daily Device Identification' which by default only runs once daily as it says (device identification can be lengthy, so you don't really want it run more often). You can run it manually to update HP SIM.

Position information is retrieved from the Onboard Administrator. If moving blades is going to be a pretty common affair for your environment, you can create a new Identification task and schedule it to run only against your OAs. That would be relatively efficient, so you could schedule it every couple of hours.

Re: Moving blades in an enclosure

MikeyMike — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:11:47 GMT

That was it. Thanks for the respons. Funny though because I had run a manual indentify against those objects and that was not correcting it.

As a follow up question one of the servers that was moved ended up getting a new IP address and is now unreachable. Do I have to delete the entry and re-discover it or is there a way to get it to resolve to the new IP?

Thanks again!!

Re: Moving blades in an enclosure

David Claypool — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:50:50 GMT

HP SIM knows servers based on their IP address. If the IP address stays the same and the name changes, Identification will pick up the new name. However, a new IP address will only get picked up via discovery (assuming that it is in the range of your autodiscovery options).