Can't see my EVA, SAN switches & storage host in SIM 5.2

[Usman Sharif]

Dears
I have Insight manager 5.2 installed. I want to integrate my EVA storage, SAN switches and HBA hosts in my SIM, but SIM in not detecting it. I've configured SNMP in my EVA, SAN Switch and HBA host server, but still i can't see my storage products under SIM storage container. Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

[Ervinck Kevin]

Enter the ip-addresses from the SAN switches to discover those in HPSIM, you'll find them back in the 'Systems' group.
For the EVA you'll need to install an SMI-S provider to have it showed in HP SIM.
More information on that here:

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/smisproviders.html

Generally you already can monitor your disks / controllers of your MSA/EVA when you have a server added in HPSIM which has a Host Bus Adapter connected to the SAN/EVA.
This way it will be reported via HPSIM.
You can view the controller/disk status by opening the System Management Homepage. There choose 'External Storage Connections'.

[Usman Sharif]

I have HP Storage management appliance which has SMS-S installed + storageworks command view, pls. check the attached snapshot from storage appliance add/remove program. I don't have SMI-S installed on SIM server. still i can't see it from SIM. I've already discovered the storage appliance but still i can't see my storage(both Main and DR site) in SIM. The link you sent me is saying, check stroageworks documentation. can you pls. tell me how to use SMI-S, i really don't know what is the correct way to utilize it.
For the hosts connected to storage through HBA, i can see from system home page but i can't see them in SIM. When i run SIM report to show all the hosts with HBA/Storage Disk details etc, the report comes blank, although I have all the blades with 8.0 PSP, SNMP properly configured, System Home page also configured. still all the storage reports are blank.
Pls. advise.
Thanks.

[Rob Buxton]

HPSIM discovers EVAs via CommandView. Version 5 didn't work to well, we're on CV EVA 6 which does.
During the CV EVA install you enter credentials for the SMI-S Service. You need to enter these in the wbem section for the server that hosts CV EVA in HPSIM.

Also google for wbemdisco, this is a discovery tool that tests the SMI-S connection, it's part of HPSIM.

The rest depends on how much info and effort you want. HPSIM should be able to get quite a bit of info from SNMP for the devices. Just like servers snmp needs to be configured with the right community names and access.
How much info you get is influenced by the switch type.

Some HBA info can be seen via the System Management Homepage. I've not tried installing and using additional SMI-S connectors to get info. As we use QLogic Controllers I just use their SANSurfer Utility.

[Usman Sharif]

I've run the WBEMDisc.cmd from the SIM server and its replying. Still i can't see the storage. I ran Identify system and it is saying that SMI-S COMIM is not installed but it is installed on the storage management appliance. pls. check the output

Starting identification process...
Checking for known running web servers.
Checking for System Management Home Page and other HP web agents.
Received a response from the system management homepage, this system supports SM
H.
Checking for WBEM support on system.
This system does not have any SMI-S CIMOM installed

I've modified access.dat file and added my SIM IP but still i am unable to discover the storage. pls. advise

Thanks

[Rob Buxton]

I take it you have CommandView installed - what version?
It should also be installed on a server separate from the HPSIM installation - is it?

Typically the SMI-S credentials are Administrator/Administrator, so assuming they have not been changed, from HPSIM click on the server name of the server that has CV EVA installed. That should take you to the System page. Click on the Tools & Links tab and then select System protocol settings. Under WBEM select the override global settings and enter the credentials above, enter 5989 as the port number.
back to HPSIM under Options ->Protocol Settings->Global Protocol settings ensure WBEM is enabled. You can leave the credentials blank here.
Then run an identification on the server hosting CV EVA.
As noted above, if you're running a version of CV EVA pre version 6, you'll have problems.

[Usman Sharif]

Rob, i am using CV 6.0, i followed all your steps but no luck, i can't see my EVA. I was checking other messages and i found out that someone is saying that following are the pre-req.
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1.
Add user to CIMOM on the system where SMI-S is installed.
2.
Add read and write authorization for cimuser for root/pg_interop namespace, on the system where SMI-S is installed.
3.
Import SMI-s certificate on SIM trusted certificate list.
5.
run discovery for server where SMI-S is installed
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can you pls. tell me how to perform step 1 2 and 3. and in step 1, which user shell i add.

pls. advise

[Jim Miller]

I beleiev that the SMI-S namespace changed for EVA between ver 5 and ver 6.
The ver 5 namespace was root/pg_interop
The ver 6 and above is root/eva

[Fredrick Karlsson_2]

Look for the following on the EVA Command View server. There will be a program called cimuser.exe under pegasus_home\bin (running ver 7 of Command View not sure if it is the same for ver 6).

Type cimuser -l to have a look at what users have access using wbem. This user should be configured as user under Global Protocol Settings under WBEM. If the user is administrator then the default password is administrator. You can change this with cimuser aswell.

After verifying this username you need to delete the Command View Server from SIM and do a Discovery on that server again.

[Rob Buxton]

I don't enter these details in the global section, I enter them in the server specific section for the server hosting commandview. Otherwise this account / password gets used on all servers during data collection runs. I keep the global credentials blank but make sure wbem is enabled globally.