MIBs for System Insight Manager

[Paul DeConti]

I have a mixed environment with 75 % HP/Compaq servers and 25% IBM E Series servers. Where can I gets MIBS for the IBM servers and how do I configure the MIBS to have the IBM servers seen and managed in SIM? Please help...thanks

[David Claypool]

Get the IBM Director agent loaded on all your IBM servers and discover them. hpSIM will recognize and identify them as IBM servers, provide a link to the web interface of the Director agents and will get status through SNMP. The MIBs are pre-loaded in the hpSIM directory tree--you just need to register them:

ibmmmalert.cfg
ibmserveraid.cfg
ibmums.cfg
ibmumsevent.cfg

These are the compiled versions of the files (the raw MIBs are out there, too). Go to the MIB directory:

\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\mibs

You can't use a wild card with the MxMib command, so you'll need to run it each time separately:

..\bin\mxmib -a ibmmmalert.cfg
..\bin\mxmib -a ibmserveraid.cfg
..\bin\mxmib -a ibmums.cfg
..\bin\mxmib -a ibmumsevent.cfg

Alternatively, you could put the 4 filenames into a text file and call mxmib with the -f argument:

..\bin\mxmib -f YOURFILE.TXT

[Dean_62]

Help me unserstand here...

We run 90% HP Proliant and 10% IBM E series servers.

Eventhough we register the IBM MIBs, will events from the IBM servers (ie processor failure, overutilization, HD failure, etc.)
be reported to the HPSIM ni the event they occur?

As far as "current status" on the IBM servers, there isn't much that we can see and proactively administer other than the poll / status infomration.

Thanks for the help