I'm fairly new to HP SIM and trying to add all our HP hardware into the SIM. Most of it works fine but I am having trouble adding two older serverens with a iLO2 controllers.
I have added the server credentials and according to the log SIM can log in just fine using SSH. However, when running the discovery process the following error is displayed:
********* Significant issues and overall target discovery/identification status: Major: The system cannot be identified properly for HP SIM to manage; unable to get one or more of the following: model, serial number or unique identifier (UUID). For management processors, verify the system is running the latest firmware. For Linux based operating systems, you must have dmidecode installed, enable the PermitRootLogin and PasswordAuthentication in sshd, and use root sign-in credential. For HP-UX, verify the sign-in credential. For Windows, check if WMIMapper is configured correctly on the CMS and verify the sign-in credential. Critical: The system(s) can not be identified by WBEM, SNMP or SSH
I have tried manually setting the SSO trust using both cert and host name, adding the servername and cert to the iLO but with no luck.
I am sort of out of ideas so any help would be appreciated. For reference I have attached the full discovery log.
Yes i added the public community, tried both with and without a capital P. I am able to connect just fine using HTTP and HTTPS and i have upgraded the firmware to the latest version using tge web interface.
Did you install the latest hotfix of november? I've read a lot of people have problems with ILO2 but all looks fine here with the 7.4 version and the hotfix. Are the SIM server and ILOs separated by a firewall?
Yes I have installed the latest hotfix. After searching for a solution i read the same thing and I made sure the iLO firmware and SIM was the latest version. One iLO is behind a firewall and a site-to-site VPN tunnel but all traffic is forwarded and we have no trouble with any other servers or services. The other is the same network as the SIM server so that one at least should have no problems.
When i look at the log i see that SSH works, is the name/ip of a server? If so you try to discover the IP of the ILO instead. Can you confirm that you are discovering a server instead of an ILO?
Im not sure I understand. The log states that SIM logs in using SSH just fine. The credentials used are the same as the HTTPS login which also works fine. Are there supposed to be any other credentials?
You are correct that selecting the system, choosing the "Tools & Links" tab and then "System Credentials" i only have two; SSH and Sign-In and no SNMP credentials. However the SNMP credentials are configured in the discory rule with "Public" as the read community. Also, i dont seem to have SNMP credentials on any of the iLO3 servers either.
That is strange indeed, do you have any ILO with SNMP working? If you look at the credentials you can edit these and add credentials. Please try to add Public at the SNMP, this will trigger a discovery job. Look at the log of this job to see if the SNMP works. Wich protocols do see when selecting tho ILO?
I have checked the other ILOs and none of them have SNMP credentials enabled, even though the Public community string is entered in the discovery rule. I have checked and readded the Public community to both the system discovery and the global credentials and still it states that the system cant be identified.
I have attached the full discovery log for one ILO2.
The following lines however seem to indicate that SNMP is not enable on the ILO2.
* Checking for SNMP protocol support on system... Normal: The system did not respond to SNMP. Verify security settings and community strings in Options->Security->Credentials->System Credentials * Checking for SNMPv3 protocol support on system... Normal: The system did not respond to SNMPv3. Verify security settings and v3 credentials in Options->Security->Credentials->System Credentials * Running HP ProLiant management agent identification... Normal: The system does not support SNMP. * Running SNMP base cluster identification using common cluster MIB... Normal: SNMP is not supported or globally disabled, skipping SNMP cluster identification.
Am i missing some configuration on the ILO? On the ILO3 servers only SNMPv3 fails.
I've attached the ILO2 log for one of my discovery of an ILO.
If you open the log you can see the following :
Normal: The system responded to an SNMP request; it supports SNMP Protocol and has a valid read community string.
And soon after that it logs the following :
Normal: This system is a management processor; attempting to get associated server information.
So the SNMP discovery told the SIM discovery that this is an ILO. I've disabled the SSH because i don't have SSH credentials. When i look at the recorded credentials i see Public from the Global source. When i look at the discovered Management Protocols i see HTTPS:1.0 and SNMP: 1.0.
The SIm version is 7.4 and the november fix is installed. You could try to increase the SNMP timeout just to be sure.
I'm running out of options, is the firewall of the SIM server active? If so try to disable it just to test that's not the problem.
You could check if the traps directory under the SIM installation has files in it, SIM uses this directory to buffer it's snmp traffic. This directorg thojld have files comming and going all the time. You could also set a Windows server to accept SNMP queries just to see if SNMP is eorking from scans of the SIM server. Just set if not already configered the SNMP to Public and allow SNMP from the name or IP of your SIM server, set ghe datasource to SNMP and look if the System Management Homepage still shows system info.
This is all just for finding out what's wrong you can revert these setti gs when you find out the source of the problem.
I have already tried disabling the firewall on the SIM server. I didn't see much activity in the traps folder. I didnt have an HP server to test SNMP againt but i setup SNMP on a VMWare server and tried to descover it in SIM. The log states the following:
* Checking for SNMP protocol support on system... Normal: The system responded to an SNMP request; it supports SNMP Protocol and has a valid read community string.
- so im assuming there are no general problems using SNMP.
I am considering factory resetting the iLO controllers on the two servers just to make sure nothing is configured incorrectly, even though I can't see what that would be.
