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HP SNMP Agents on Citrix XenServer 5.6

Andrew_271 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:44:16 GMT

I am having a major issue with the HP SNMP Agents bringing one of my two XenServers to its knees. The agents appeared to work OK on the older version of XenServer (5.5). After upgrading to 5.6, one of the servers constantly freezes until disabling the CMAHOSTD process.

I am running XenServer on 2 identical ProLiant DL580 G5's. Each has 16 cores and 64 gigs of ram.

With CMAHOSTD running, every 10-15 seconds the whole system pauses for a few seconds, not even responding to command-line keystrokes, then bounces back. While monitoring the TOP command in linux, CMAHOSTD jumps to 90%+ CPU usage briefly during this freezing. As soon as I disabled CMAHOSTD, the problem went away.

I originally upgraded XenServer on both servers. After having the problem, I rebuilt the server from scratch (no upgrade) and the problem continued.

The older version of the agents (from last year) with xenserver 5.5 worked fine on both servers.

Any ideas? Thanks.

I attached a screenshot of the TOP command.

Re: HP SNMP Agents on Citrix XenServer 5.6

waldgraf99 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:57:11 GMT

Hi Andrew
sorry to bother you, but so far I have tried to configure the SNMP agents for a 5.5 pool with no success.
Could you please tell me how you changed the .conf file so it all worked out?
I know you are looking for an answer in here but so far mi understanding of the agents is not good enough to make them work.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Re: HP SNMP Agents on Citrix XenServer 5.6

Benjamin Odenthal — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:31:01 GMT

Go to my homepage, it's to late in germany while i am posting this to write up the whole story... how to.

Http://tuxclouds.org

It's in german but i guess you'll figure it out.

Re: HP SNMP Agents on Citrix XenServer 5.6

waldgraf99 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:11:30 GMT

Hi Andrew.

In the instructions you have on your site theres a file folder named /home/agents which contents is not specified.
Where do I find those files ?
Thanks for your help in advance.

Re: HP SNMP Agents on Citrix XenServer 5.6

Benjamin Odenthal — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:20:35 GMT

1 mv hp-snmp-agents-xs-8.2.5-7 newname
2 remove the line #!/bin/sh at the top of the Script
3 sh newname
VoilÃ¡ there're the RPMs

Now installiert the rpm's in order, as described on my site.

The important thing about that whole stuff...
DO NOT INSTALL THE IPMI RPM FROM HP,
INSTEAD INSTALL OPEN-IPMI out of centos-base repo.

Re: HP SNMP Agents on Citrix XenServer 5.6

Torsten Hermann — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:41:17 GMT

Hello,

look here, Management Agent 8.50 for Xen Server 5.6 as .iso:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=1121516&swItem=MTX-abb7e7195a784521a3f50ee4a9&prodNameId=3288134&swEnvOID=4039&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=2

Installation Instructions:

Method 1

After finishing the XenServer installation, the system will be rebooted. Follow the instruction bellow to install the Agents

a. Open a command shell by selecting the "Local Command Shell" option from the Host menu.
b. Mount the CDROM which contains the SIM Agents Supplemental pack to the host .
c. From the root of where the CD was mounted, type "install.sh" and complete the installation.

Method 2

During the XenServer installation process, provide the hp-agents.xs.iso to the XenServer installer when prompted to provide additional supplemental pack.

Review the HP EULA before installing.
Read the readme.txt file and install according to the release notes