Monitoring HP SIM Agents?

[Goonboon]

Hello,

Here is my question: Has anyone found a GOOD way to monitor the health of HP SIM Agents?

I work for a large corporation that has over 2600 devices in our version 5.1 of SIM and one thing we are having problems with is policing our agents to make sure they are there and configured correctly.

I have found a way to run a query in our SIM Database to look for "unknowns" however this does not check the trap destination settings. What I am looking for is if HP has a way to exercise the agents, SMH, and SNMP Service to make sure they are all working.

Basically looking for a Agent Heartbeat or something like that.

We are at a point now that we need to start being more proactive in our monitoring then just reacting to problems when they arise.

We take more of a burn when something fails and our monitoring does not react to it.

So I am looking for any suggestions you guys might have.

Agents: 7.51 and up running on mostly NT machines.
SIM Version: C.05.01.00.00
Running on Windows 2003 Server SP1

[Rob Buxton]

Not exactly.
The first part is really about the process fo commissioning a new server.
Ensuring the HPA Agents are installed and correctly configured.
An initial HPSIM report will find the unmanaged / unknown servers and they can then be fixed.
As regards the Trap details, you can use the Replicate Agent Settings from configure. Replicate a known good setting to all (or as a test a subset) of your servers.
This will do a couple of things, set the settings as required but also show as a result of the jobs output any servers it had issues getting to.

[David Claypool]

Rather than pulling a report (if that were possible) and then scanning it manually to see if anything wasn't set properly, you can use 'Replicate Agent Settings' on a periodic basis to ensure things are set the way you want them.

You additionally could consider setting SNMP up through your AD and a Group Policy Object setting to make sure everything is consistent.