HP SIM to monitor IBM servers

[Steve_P]

All,

Does anyone successful using HP SIM to monitor IBM servers? Send snmp traps from IBM servers to HPSIM?

I registered most the IBM mibs and I was not able to receive any traps from the IBM servers when I pulled out one of the drive in the array for testing.

These are the mibs I have compiled and registered in HPSIM.
ibm-serveraid-mib.cfg
ibm-serveraid-mib.mib
ibm-system-assetid-mib.cfg
ibm-system-health-mib.cfg
ibm-system-health-mib.mib
ibm-system-mib.cfg
ibm-system-mib.mib
ibm-system-traps-mib.cfg
ibm-system-traps-mib.mib

Am I missing anything?

Thanks,

Steve

[Rob Buxton]

Did the trap get there?
First thing would be to allow unregistered generic traps and ensure that they're actually getting to the HPSIM server.

[Steve_P]

I received some events such as disconnect and connect the network cable from the nic.
However, when I tried to test the serveraid array and I did not get any event. I tested the serveraid array by pulling out one of the drive in an array and see if it triggers the event within HP sim. I saw this event in the windows event log but not in HP sim.

Is there anything else I missed on the HP SIM?

Thanks,
Steve

[OlivierV]

Hi Steve.

May be a stupid question but are the IBM server agents (IBM director ?) installed ? I think the OS is unable to send any trap about a drive beeing removed unless the server agents are running.

Regards.

[Steve_P]

Yes, IBM director agents are installed.

Steve

[fred Passeron]

Hi

Another simple question to you : I ssnmp properly configured to send traps to the HP SIM server?
Unplugging a cable may result in the situation where HP SIM cannot poll the server anymore and then it becomes unreachable and obviously an event is generated at that time...

Hope it helps

fred

[Steve_P]

Yes, the snmp setting is configured to with hp sim ip address.

Is there any utility to test snmp traps? HP management agent does come with the test snmp trap option to test the snmp trap.

Thanks,

Steve

[Rob Buxton]

As noted above there are two alert mechanisms used by HPSIM. Polling goes around and checks it can reach a server, so if the server is unreachable, HPSIM itself generates the event.

The second relies on Agents, and on an HP Server these are bundled in the PSP. When they detect an error they generate an snmp trap. Again with HP these use the standard windows snmp service. Community names etc. need to be set up so that the trap is sent and received okay by HPSIM. Once there it's compared against the MIB and a suitable event generated.

There are trapsend utilities around that you could use to test sending a trap.
You can also look at the events for a particular server, check unregistered generic traps are allowed and also check to see if any "informational" traps have been received.

[Steve_P]

I tested the smmp traps from HP server and it worked. But I don't seem to receive traps from the ibm server (systemx) x3650. The snmp community name is set and point to hpsim server.

Does anyone successful done it using HPSIM to monitor ibm servers?


Thanks,

Steve

[Steve_P]

I got it working now. But one question.

How do I configure so only one event is email out rather multiple of the same events?

Thanks,

Steve

[Rob Buxton]

That's the event handling, and that depends on the traps it's getting.
If the IBM sends multiple traps for the same issue and the traps are all the same then you'll get multiple e-mails as the event handler will fire multiple times.

If they're different traps then you might be able to refine the event handler to exclude some of them.

[Aaron Knox]

Hi guys,
I'm working on a similar project. In my googling, I found this document ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/management/hpsim/illuminata.pdf which states 'One console to rule them all', pretty funny, but very accurate as I'm already managing Dell servers with the outstanding HP SIM.

To get the Dell servers to work I deleted the existing Dell Server entry in Manage Systems Types and created a new system type with the Dell 10892.mib (renamed to new10892.mib so it's compatible with SIM)) using the 'retrieve from system' and 'retrieve from mib' options. Here are the steps I took for a new rule in Manage System Types: For 'System Object Identifier' click 'retrieve from system', plug in the community string and server name and get the generic response which populates that field with 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.2. For the next field, 'MIB variable object identifier' I selected the Dell new10892.mib and the variable name 'systemManagementSoftwareName'. For the third field, 'Object value', click the 'retrieve from system' and it is populated with the value 'Server Administrator'.

My question to Steve or anyone else that might know is simply how did you get it to work with the IBM mibs? Or more specific, did you create a new system type in Manage System Types? If so, which IBM mib and variable object identifier did you use?

Thanks!
Aaron

[Accio]

Hi Steve,

where did you find those mibs? I tried to sail IBM websites such as ib director's cdrom with no result.

Thanks in advance
Davide

[OlivierV]

Hi Accio.

There are pre-compiled mib provided with HP SIM. I added one IBM server two weeks ago and it has been successfully recognized.
If you want more IBM mibs, you can browse this site :
http://www.mibdepot.com/cgi-bin/vendor_index.cgi?r=ibm
Once you have the mib name (for example IBM-SERVERAID-MIB), you can use this link :
http://support.ipmonitor.com/mibs/IBM-SERVERAID-MIB/raw.aspx
Then copy and paste the text to a file on your workstation and save it with the .mib extension.
Regards