Moving to HP SIM 4.2 from CIM 7 & NetWare 6.5SP2

[Steve Merriman]

I've been trying to download SP SIM 4.1 or 4.2 for a few months now, link never seems to work. But when I do get it, are my foundation agents on my NetWare 6.5 boxes going to work or do I need different NetWare agents?
I assume HP SIM 4.2 is just a new management platform and will work with old server agents?

Just planning ahead and I don't see SIM agents for NetWare as a download option, I acutaully don't see any mention of NetWare at all except for the CIM foundation agents.

To be perfectly honest, I have less than 50 servers, and have been using the CIM Windows app from about 1999 to manage my servers all this time. I thought the whole Insight Manager X stuff was just a fad that would pass (-: So, running MSDE or SQL on my management server is not familiar territory to me.

[David Claypool]

Check out "Transitioning from Compaq Insight Manager (Win32) to HP Systems Insight Manager" at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim --> Information Library

[Steve Merriman]

Are you running NetWare 6.5SP2 with the current agents? I had a lot of abend issues when I upgraded my 6.0 servers to 6.5, FYI these servers were 5.0, then 5.1, then 6.0 then 6.5 and I found that there were some very old legacy CIM NLMs that were causing abends, but I had to rem out IM agents on some servers that I could not find offending nlms on.

[David Claypool]

NW 6.5 is current and the latest support pack is available for it. If you suspect something that's making your systems abend, get it to support and let's escalate it.