topic Re: IBM Device Identification in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

IBM Device Identification

compassuk — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:18:21 GMT

I am running Insight 5.1 and have a number of IBM which I am trying to integrate. The IBM's are showing, but I can not get any Product or OS information. I have checked the SNMP settings on the IBM's and they are correct. I have also run mxmib to enable the IBM MIBS.

I have run an Identify and have attached the output.

Does anyone have any ideas.

Re: IBM Device Identification

David Claypool — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:47:34 GMT

HP SIM uses SNMP only for status polling and events on non-HP gear. WMI is used for collecting data on configuration. See http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim-->Information Library --> "How to manage non-HP servers with HP SIM"

Re: IBM Device Identification

compassuk — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:35:29 GMT

I have followed the steps outlined, but this still does not display the IBM server details.

I have checked the SNMP settings on the server to make sure that the security is correct for my CIM server. Apart from the MIBs is there any other setting in CIM that I must enable.

Re: IBM Device Identification

Francisco Garcia_3 — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:00:07 GMT

Please check the following:

1) make sure SNMP services is installed and enabled.
2) make sure community string is the same as your CMS.
3) under "accept packets from these hosts" make sure your CMS is included.
4) if you would like to use WBEM, make sure the username and password matches that set on your CMS, under "Global Protocol Settings"
5) re-identify the system

Hope this helps.

Re: IBM Device Identification

compassuk — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:02:13 GMT

In the webem section I needed to add the 'domain\accountname' that CIM could you. Previously I only had 'accountname'. Once this was done I re-ran identify on the systems and the product information correctly appeared.