topic Re: Enabling WBEM, will it stop SNMP in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Enabling WBEM, will it stop SNMP

ADYH — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:16:35 GMT

Hi,

I have a SNMP solution to monitor application errors with software I'm running on several ProLiant servers. However I do not want HP hardware SNMP notifications to be sent to my monitoring server.

If I enable WBEM in SIM and on ProLiant servers within the System Management Homepage (SMH) will it stop SNMP hardware events being sent from the server. All I want to hit my SNMP server is the application related traps.

Many thanks

Re: Enabling WBEM, will it stop SNMP

ADYH — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:12:40 GMT

I can confirm the answer is "no". I enabled WBEM on a server and some (not all) SNMP traps are still being received by my SNMP server. For instance when I pull a redundant power supply out the alarm appears via WBEM in SIM, nothing reaches the SNMP box. However if I restart the server I see other events (such as array battery charge is low) appear in my SNMP application.

Can anybody explain what's going on here? Do certain HP agents generate SNMP traps regardless?

Re: Enabling WBEM, will it stop SNMP

shocko — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:09:12 GMT

Well you don't 'enable' WBEM as such. Once you install the WBEM providers on a server, the SMH will use it as a datasource. The providers will run as a service and will monitor the hardware but also the SNMP agents will still be monitoring the hardware and sending traps if they detect issues. This is by design and is fine. If you only want one or the other then disable the services you don't need ;). Also, the iLO card may be configured for SNMP passthorugh so it may send on SNMP traps generated the server/enclosure