HP SIM 5.1 Does not email HDD failures?

[Itman_1]

Hello!

I have HP SIM 5.1 SP1 installed on a desktop running XP.

I have it setup to email via SNMP when the servers are unreachable and that works very well. I am noticing that when there are hardware problems I am getting no notifications and the HPSIM does not show any issues? Is there something that needs to be installed on the HP servers that I am missing?

I have installed the HP manager agent on the server but still nothing. I have a bad drive to play with but I get no alerts when the good drive is removed or the bad drive is put in.

I am not sure what I am missing, I thought I configured the snmp traps correct but like I said in the SIM itself I dont see any type of failures listed (which I think would have to happen before a message would even be generated)

One thing I have gotten to work on the server is the HP management agents/event notifier config application. I have set this up correctly and it does email me when I take the good and bad drive out for instance.

Is this the proper practice, to have the event notifier run on the server and the HPSIM to alert you when there is a severe problem only?

I was under the assumption that HPSIM would handle it all.

Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks in advance

[David Claypool]

It sounds like you do not have SNMP Trap Destinations set on the target server so it knows where to send events. You can use the HP SIM 'Configure or Repair Agents...' menu item to correct this.

[Itman_1]

I tried that and it went through its updating phse OK. I just swapped out the drive again, The agent running on the server itself immeditely sent a email notification but HPSIM shows everything as normal.

only thing that may mean something is under MP I have an (I) and under PF I have an (?)but everything is showing as normal.

Also on configure and repair agents on step 3 I left everything as default except the read community string which I unchecked.

Thanks!

[David Claypool]

On the managed server, what is the trap destination? If set to a DNS name, can it in fact resolve that name to an IP address from that server?

On the CMS, is the SNMP Trap service running?

[Itman_1]

Setting trap service and configuring the trap on the server was my problem. thanks for your help!

Do you know how I go about getting more Licenses for my servers so my PF collumn isnt full of (?)