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Re: HP SIM - How to monitor a device? SNMP or WBEM?

 
pgarr
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Re: HP SIM - How to monitor a device? SNMP or WBEM?

In my opinion HP's implementation of wbem is lacking.   You can't filter events and for proper detection admin rights are required.  Try a discovery against hyper-v's for example.  

 

SNMP is easier to deal with if insight manager is in place.

 

Tushar Bajpai
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Re: HP SIM - How to monitor a device? SNMP or WBEM?

One can discover using WBEM / WMI in HPSIM by using least privilege account.

Microsoft provideds documentation how to work with WMI using least privelege. 

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Sander-A
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Re: HP SIM - How to monitor a device? SNMP or WBEM?

I would like to used WBEM, but the overhead of setting it up much higher than snmp as well as if you're in an environment which uses Windows Firewall I haven't been able to get the proper ports to traverse the firewall even using the ports listed in the SIM security guide.

 

If someone could tell me which is the Wbem executable that might work to open it that way, but I haven't found it yet.

 

Additionally SNMP is supported on all HP devices which support SIM/Remote Insight so you're probably going to have to use SNMP anyway for anything other than servers.

 

I would really like a better alternative to SNMP since I have had problems with the trap reciever on the CMS, but I don't think WBEM is it.