HPSIM and UNIX monitoring

[Bill Slobodnik]

HPSIM is working very well with the exception of HP/Unix 9000 servers in my network. We are only able to discover and pick up IP addresses and Mac addresses via data collection.
The Unix admins have added the Community strings and reset the SNMP agents (which I did receive a cold start email and event alert for) but no additional monitoring capabilities. Email and event alerts for server reboots are recognized as well.
What am I missing?

[Georg Tresselt]

I assume you also installed your agents.

[Bill Slobodnik]

correct

[Edward Latzko]

Verify the community string in snmp. I found that this to be the main issue with UNIX.

[Bill Slobodnik]

Verified that both the agents and Community strings are correct. I have not added any MIB's at this point beyond the MIB's included with the installation. Where can I obtain HP/Unix MIBS assuming this is what's missing?

[David Claypool]

See page 92 of the "HP SIM Installation and User Guide," section called "Setting up HP-UX Managed Systmes."

SNMP is really only used for event traps. Management data is exchanged via DMI (11.11) or WBEM (11.23).

[Bill Slobodnik]

Makes sense. Both traps and manageability would be good to have. Unfortunately I've read that section of the doc and find it more than vague:

"Install and configure WBEM.
swinstall -s /directory/depot B8465BA
where directory is the path to the depot file and depot is the name of the depot file. For example, swinstall -s /tmp/HPSIM_download.depot B8465BA."

Where is this being installed from? Is the depot file already there or does it need to be created? Bear with me with some of these questions, I'm Unix illiterate but need to pass the info to my Unix admins.