Cannot integrate OpenView and SIM for ProLiant snmp traps

[John Golden_1]

We successfully use Compaq’s System Insight Manager (SIM) to manage ProLiant hardware, but we want to integrate with OV NNM and OVO, and cannot follow HP advice in http://www.managementsoftware.hp.com/products/ovowin/twp/ovowin_twp_hpsim_integration.pdf saying to use WIN OS SPI, because
• SLES9 cannot run trapi
• Installing WIN OS SPI trap templates on hpux OVO server causes errors Can’t convert configuration file (OpC30-114) syntax error in pattern definition “<<#> -eq 4”. Eventually trapi dies. Can this syntax be fixed? The downloaded trap shows $5 "<<#> -eq 4>" – isn’t that valid?
• Yes I have the latest WIN OS SPI v8.80, pulled down from evaluation site.
Does anyone know a method for catching snmp traps sent from proliant boxes running Linux? Alternatively we configured cma.conf to send hardware alarms to /var/adm/messages, but we don’t have a logfile template with detail to recognize hardware alarms.
Thanks for any advice
- John