WBEM agent configuration for DL380 G6 on RHEL 5.5

[Helmut Moltke]

Hi,

I am trying to configure the WBEM agent on a RHEL 5.5 OS (DL380 G6). This is the first time I use WBEM (besides HP ESXi).

I downloaded and installed the following to packages form http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884082&swItem=MTX-e4807dc640744cad97f0d689e1&prodNameId=3884083&swEnvOID=4006&swLang=13&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=1:
*hpmgmtbase-2.10-16.rhel5.i386.rpm (658 KB)
*hp-smx-02.03-10.rhel5.i386.rpm (14 MB)

As I am using HP SIM, I don't want to manage a HP SMH environment for each server.

After installing hpmgmtbase, tog-pegasus (from repository, needed by hp-smx) and hp-smx, I startd tog-pegasus and hpmgmtbase.

I edited the /etc/Pegasus/access.conf file, by giving root also external access:
+: root: ALL

HP SIM has the root password (credentials).

Iptables is temporary desactivated.

At discovery I get the following log in SIM:

Normal: This system has WBEM protocol support.
Minor: This system does not have any SMI-S CIMOMs installed. No storage
systems will be found on this system.
Normal: This system has a server CIMOM installed.
* Running WBEM rules based identification...
Minor: The computer system information is not available on the managed
system; For HP hardware, please check the HP site to get the HP
WBEM provider.
Minor: Identification cannot get computer system hardware data from the
WBEM / WMI providers.

Under Managemet Protocols (in the sytem page), I have the following: SNMP:1.0, WBEM:1.0

I only have ping and snmp under the Health Status tree. So no WBEM.

Did I forget something when configuring WBEM, why doesn't it work?

I read in some posts that the WBEM providers are for Integrity servers only, but did not find any HP document saying the same. Is this correct?

Thanks.

[Jan Soska]

hmm, i've noticed there is WBEM available for RH5x, but we still ride on RH4 with SNMP only so no experience...
Have you read some manuals regarding it?

jan

[Helmut Moltke]

See http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6518/5991-6518.pdf, "HP WBEM Providers for Linux
Installation Guide and Release Notes".

2) Installing and Configuring:

You can install the HP WBEM Providers using HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux
Support Pack or from the command line.

There is no description about ProLiant servers.