HP SIM with IBM hardware

[Oliver Krehan]

Hi there,

I read the posts in this forum but I can't find the info I need. I know that it's possible to monitor non-HP hardware via snmp but I need to know what kind of information I can grep from these machines. To be more specific, I would like to monitor IBM hardware where the director agent 4.12 is installed, with HP SIM 4.1 and I also imported the MIBs as described in one of the earlier posts. I achieved to discover the machine via a SNMP search but all I have now is very basic info like name, dns name and mac address. So I think, the snmp settings on the IBM machine are correct. There is a green check mark by SNMP.
I tried to create an snmp trap by pulling out one harddrive of an raid-5 array but there was no warning in the SIM.
I'm not sure what kind of information SIM can get from non-hp hardware so could please anyone tell me, if it's possible to monitor IBM hardware with the same information level like monitoring HP systems ? And if yes, how do I have to setup my server/clients to do this?

Thanks in advance for your help/info.

Oliver Krehan

[Scott Shaffer]

Unless you turn on WMI that is all the information we're going to collect from an IBM system.

However, we should get the alerts via SNMP for failed drives. You might want to make sure that you import the latest SNMP MIBs (the ones that go with director 4.12.)