Getting Novell server abends to show in SIM

[Trent Spong]

When our Novell 5.1 server abends, it enters this in the Compaq Intgrated Management Log, however does not create an event in SIM. In contrast, when a drive goes bad, it enters this in the Compaq Intgrated Management Log, and sends a message to Sim's event log. We have SNMP traps set up. How do I get server abends to set up so that we can be notified in advance?

[Lars Nilsson_1]

Trent

A NetWare server abend does not create an event on a "Out of the box" installation of HPSIM. You only get hardware related traps if you don't compile some additional MIBs on your CMS. (More on that below).
When an abend occurs you can see that the System Status has changed to Major because there is an uncleared critical event in the IML. You usually also get a number of related events so you can see that something suspect has occured. For example:
"System is unreachable"
"Server Operational (6025)"
"Fan Status Change (8026)"

However, if you want to recieve traps from the NetWare OS you have to use at least one additional Novell MIB that's actually already on your CMS, but not yet compiled.

The MIB to use is named nwalarm.mib, and information how to compile additional MIBs is found in the document "Compiling and customizing SNMP MIBs with HP Systems Insight manager".

You can find this document and many others in the Information Library:
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html

Good Luck