topic HP SIM server renaming in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

HP SIM server renaming

Shane D Johnson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:18:00 GMT

I am going to upgrade our current SIM server from 5.3 to 6.2 and in that process I am going to have to rename the server. Will this affect the SIM application?

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Server-Support — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:31:02 GMT

Hm.. interesting I also thinking between performing inline upgrade or migrate the existing v5.2 into v 6.3 ?

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Bart_Heungens — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:01:33 GMT

Hi,

Is there a specific reason why you want to upgrade?
Sometimes a clean install goes much faster, you do a clean discovery and it will work smoother...

Or are there a lot of queries, collections and security that you want to preserve?

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Server-Support — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:06:03 GMT

Same reason as with me, because I don't want to do the agent redeployment to prevent major data center server restart.

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Bart_Heungens — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:13:05 GMT

If you deploy HP SIM 6.3 on a new server (virtual or physical), it shouldn't have any impact on the agents within the datacenter...
With the option Repair Agent Settings, you can re-link all the agent settings to the new server without any downtime... Everything can be done online...

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Arunav Nayak — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:20:11 GMT

Hi Johnson,

Renaming server name will not affect SIM from normal processing.

Thanks,
Arunav

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Shane D Johnson — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:49:52 GMT

Thank you all for the great replies. We have to do an inplace upgrade due to time constraints. I do plan on replacing the current servers with new ones but there just isn't enough time to get the new servers ordered and in place.

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Server-Support — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:10:15 GMT

cool,

please let us know how you go with that inline upgrade.

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Neal Bowman — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:37:31 GMT

If you have SNMP security set to "Allow SNMP packets from these hosts", you will need to add the new server name in to continue to allow the systems to be properly identified in SIM.

Re: HP SIM server renaming

Blazhev_1 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:08:25 GMT

that's the doc about changing the CMS name:

http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/misc/hpsim-helpfiles/hpsim_5_changing_the_SystemName.pdf