Integrating SIM config into RDP Linux installs

[Daniel Segall]

I manage hundreds of P-Class blades, and we are trying to monitor them all with SIM. I am aware of how to configure SNMP to get a server to report into SIM, but I can't figure out an easy way to automate this setup. I tried just adding the necessary lines into my POST section, but it looks like the PSP install squashes the snmp.conf file, when it makes it's "additions".

Does anyone know how to automate the setup on Linux systems? Ideally I would like to just modify the PSP config somehow to get it to insert the lines for me. But I'm open to any suggestions. I can't imagine this should be so difficult to implement.

Thanks,
-Dan

[Todd Schelin]

Daniel,
The PSP has configurable items within it. The Management agents are configurable and you configure them before you ever push the PSP to the server. You need to run the Remote SupportPaq installer to allow you to configure these portions of the management agents and then when you push it you are good to go. The same applies to Windows.

[Daniel Segall]

Please forgive my ignorance, but where does one find the "Remote Support Paq" installer?

[Rob Buxton]

Perhaps it's different with the VMWare ESX PSP, but for that there's a silent install where it uses a pre-configured configuration file that sets the SNMP details. It uses the --silent parameter.

[Daniel Segall]

As luck would have it, I stumbled on this answer long after I had given up on finding it. The place to set this is in the rdpinstall.dat file in the PSP folder.

CMAMGMTSTATIONROIPORDNS=
CMAMGMTSTATIONROCOMMSTR=

&

CMATRAPDESTINATIONCOMMSTR
CMATRAPDESTINATIONIPORDNS

[Daniel Segall]

See above response