https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/can-t-manage-cms-itself/m-p/4491821#M38790 Check the SNMP settings on the HP SIM Server itself.<BR />It needs to have itself as an allowed host, and the trap destination needs to be set. Just like for any remote server. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:55:48 GMT Rob Buxton 2009-09-04T23:55:48Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/can-t-manage-cms-itself/m-p/4491820#M38789 I used SIM to manage all of my servers and it works well include CMS itself. <BR />All The events for SIM I can see are sign in and sign out, no other things. also If I use CMS's smh sending a test trap, it also not appear in the sim's events list. anyone have some idea about this? thanks. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:52:21 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/can-t-manage-cms-itself/m-p/4491820#M38789 xianjun_1 2009-09-04T06:52:21Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/can-t-manage-cms-itself/m-p/4491821#M38790 Check the SNMP settings on the HP SIM Server itself.<BR />It needs to have itself as an allowed host, and the trap destination needs to be set. Just like for any remote server. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:55:48 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/can-t-manage-cms-itself/m-p/4491821#M38790 Rob Buxton 2009-09-04T23:55:48Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/can-t-manage-cms-itself/m-p/4491822#M38791 Thanks for your response. I just checked the snamp setting on CMS. It allow to receive all snmp packets from any hosts.and the trap destination is set to the hostname itself. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:55:41 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/can-t-manage-cms-itself/m-p/4491822#M38791 xianjun_1 2009-09-05T05:55:41Z