Fail to add ESX blade servers

[Alexander A]

Hi. I am trying to add our ESX server blades, in a c-Class Enclosure, to HP SIM and failing miserably.

The enclosure has 8 blades - 6 ESX and 2 Windows. The Windows servers has HP Sim agents and they are added fine, in enclosure . The ESX blades however aren't identified at all. SNMP is enabled with the correct community, Identify finds that it has SNMP - but no information is recieved and the server is added as a "Linux server" product type. Hardware and Software status polling give no output at all. Can anyone help me with this?

Attached is the output from Identify.

[fred Passeron]

Hi

have you installed the ESX insight Agents ?
According to the identify output, the SMH is either not installed or misconfigured.

type a ps -ef |grep hpasm to see if some agents are running.

If the agents are installed then they may be misconfigured. Your blade servers should come up as server - Blade 460 - and ESX linux as the OS and not as linux servers only. This shows an snmp issue.

so :
1/check if insight agents are installed :
2/IF not : downolad here the latest version for ESX : http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3288156&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=1842750&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=2077


3/IF yes then check the snmpd.conf in /etc/snmpd and look for RO community string and Trap sink and trap destination configuration.

Hope it helps

Fred

[Alexander A]

Hi and thanks for your time. I forgot to mention that the agent is not installed because of the problem earlier versions had. But should I not be able to have the nodes displayed as " in enclosure