Is there a way to test receiving WBEM events from managed Linux host?

[Chris Hasler]

I there a way to test receiving WBEM events from a Linux host with the WBEM agents on the HP SIM CMS?

I have a HP SIM 5.3 SP1 CMS running on a Linux VM. I also have several Linux hosts configured with the WBEM agents.

In HP SIM I've checked to "Accept unregistered events". I've subscribed to the hosts WBEM events and runing the mxwbemsub -l -n command on the CMS shows the correct WBEM subscription. Also the host in SIM shows WBEM as one of the management protocols.

From the CMS I've attempted to "Send A sample WBEM/WMI indication" which is under, configure, configure or repair agents...for some of the WBEM configured hosts. I receive the following for all the hosts I've tested:

-Attempted on (Credentials configured: SNMP, WBEM, Sign-In)
LINUX configuration command (START)...
Sending test indication to HP SIM CMS (START)...
Send test WBEM/ WMI indication from the system (DONE)...............[SKIPPED]
It is not supported on the system.

When I run an "Identify System" for these same hosts I receive the following from the hosts when the WBEM support check is run:

Checking for WBEM support on system.
This system has WBEM protocol support
This system has at least one SMI-S CIMOM installed
This system has a server CIMOM installed
Running WBEM rules based identification.
Got ComputerSystem WBEM/WMI data from the system

Is there any way to send a test WBEM event from the managed system to the CMS to verify that the communications is occuring?

Thanks,
Chris H.

[Rob Buxton]

Not that I've seen, but what I have seen with our ESXi hosts is a message indicating that the wbem service has started on the ESXi host after a reboot.
You could jut try restarting the appropriate service. Not sure what that is though.