Need to monitor ESX with HPSIM

[rubygarg]

Hi,

We are having HP DL585 and HP DL385 ESX hosts. We need to monitor these hosts with HPSIM 6.3.

Please assist me how can I do this?

Is here any document which I can refer for same.

Thanks

[Brad Cunningham]

Are you running ESX or ESXi?

I would assume ESXi these days.

ESXi uses WBEM as the protocol for monitoring where ESX uses SNMP.

For ESXi you will need to uses HP's ESXi image or install the WBEM providers is using ESX's image. The providers are specific to HP hardware.

When discovering the host assign credentials to access the WBEM infrastructure.  This can either be a sing-in credential or WBEM/WMI. I would assign these credentials at the time of discovery.

The user root works by default but any user in the root group will work. Sometimes I will add a user for the WBEM authentication and configure its shell to bin/false so no Getty will be spawned. 

Below is an identify from a ESXI server running SIM 7.2

I have highlighted the lines you should be looking for

********* Significant issues and overall target discovery/identification

          status:

Normal:   The system has valid hardware data (model, serial number, and

          unique identifier) and has been identified properly for SIM to

          manage.

Normal:   System(s) have been successfully identified.

********* Additional results (listed for information only):

        * Starting identification process...

        * Checking for known running web servers...

        * Checking for SNMP protocol support on system...

Normal:   The system did not respond to SNMP. Verify security settings and

          community strings in Options->Security->Credentials->System

          Credentials

        * Checking for SNMPv3 protocol support on system...

Normal:   The system did not respond to SNMPv3. Verify security settings and

          v3 credentials in Options->Security->Credentials->System

          Credentials

        * Running HP ProLiant management agent identification...

Normal:   The system does not support SNMP.

        * Running SNMP base cluster identification using common cluster

          MIB...

Normal:   SNMP is not supported or globally disabled, skipping SNMP cluster

          identification.

        * Checking for WBEM protocol support on system...

Normal:   This system has WBEM protocol support.

Normal:   The system support SLP.

Normal:   This system has at least one SMI-S CIMOM installed to serve as the

          storage proxy to discover storage systems.

Normal:   This system has a server CIMOM installed.

        * Running WBEM rules based identification...

Normal:   Got the system information from the WBEM / WMI providers and it has

          a valid WBEM credential.

        * Running Virtual Machine (VM) Host (non HP Integrity VM Host)

          Identification...

Normal:   The system is a Virtual Machine (VM) Host (non HP Integrity VM

          Host) and has (17) guests running on it.

        * Running Storage identification...

        * This system has some storage related information and additional

          storage systems may be added.

        * This system has some storage related information and additional

          storage systems may be added.

        * This system has some storage related information and additional

          storage systems may be added.

        * This system has some storage related information and additional

          storage systems may be added.

        * Storage identification completed.

        * Running HP NetServer identification...

Normal:   The system does not support SNMP.

        * Running HP-UX SNMP identification...

Normal:   The system does not support SNMP.

        * Running OA Identifier which will discover systems in an enclosure

          if the automatic enclosure discovery option for OA is enabled...

Normal:   A non-embedded operating system is detected so skipping the OA

          identification.

        * Running XMLReply Identifier which will discover systems in a

          rack/enclosure if the automatic discovery option for the container

          node is enabled...

Normal:   A non-embedded operating system is detected so skipping the

          Management processor identification.

        * Running iLO Identifier which will discover the server if the

          automatic server discovery option for iLO is enabled...

Normal:   A non-embedded operating system is detected so skipping the ILO

          identification.

        * Running p-Class Identifier...

Normal:   The system is not a p-Class so skipping p-Class identification.

        * Running IPMI protocol identification...

Normal:   Skipping IPMI discovery in favor of WBEM/SNMP discovery.

        * Running SSH Protocol identification...

Normal:   This system has SSH protocol support.

        * Running SSH Identification...

Minor:    The system cannot be logged in using SSH protocol; check

          credentials or check the settings in the SSH configuration file

        * Running WS-Man identification...

Normal:   A non-embedded operating system is detected so skipping the WS-MAN

          identification.

        * Running Monarch OA Identification...

Normal:   The system is not a monarch OA so skipping monarch OA

          identification.

        * Checking for System Management Homepage and other HP web agents...

Normal:   The System Management Homepage is not installed on this system. It

          may not be supported.

        * Running HP Serviceguard Identification...

Normal:   The system is not part of HP Serviceguard cluster.

        * Running SNMP System Type manager ...

Normal:   The system does not support SNMP.

        * Running SNMP subtypes identification...

        * Resolving DNS names...

Normal:   The fully qualified domain name was successfully resolved for the

          system.

        * Checking if the Node is a Virtual Center...

Normal:   Skipping MxVirtualCenter Identifier.

        * Checking if this system is supported by Insight Control power

          management...

        * Insight Control power management is not supported.

        * Running Virtual Machine Management (VMM) Plug-in Identification...

        * Automatic discovery for VM Guest(s) is enabled at global level.

        * Building system relationships...

Minor:    The Secure Shell key-based access authentication is not configured

          on the system(s).

Minor:    System Management Homepage (SMH) is not installed or is not

          responding on the system(s).

        * Running system Manage Communication diagnosis...

        * This system is not licensed

        * System identification finished on system.

Once the system has been successfully discovered you then need to subscribe to WBEM events. Select the node nodes in SIM then go to options>events>subscribe to WBEM events.

You can verify the subscription using the command mxwbemsub -l –n nodename

C:\Users\simadmin>mxwbemsub -l -n dgdl785sim

Filter instances of Subscriptions for:

dgdl785sim

Filter Name: HPSIM_TYPE_1_c2619sim_0

Query: select * from CIM_AlertIndication

Destination: https://15.31.136.54:50004/dgdl785sim.msr.hp.com?wbemip=15.47.81.90

Filter Name: HPSIM_TYPE_1_c2619sim_0

Query: select * from CIM_AlertIndication

Destination: https://15.31.136.54:50004/dgdl785sim.msr.hp.com?wbemip=15.47.81.90

There is no “easy” way to do end to end testing.

If you are using HP's remote support product either IRS or RSA the monitored systems guide will have some helpful instructions. Even though the documents are written for remote support tools the same principal applies to SIM.

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.BINARYPORTLET/public/kb/docDisplay/resource.process/?spf_p.tpst=kbDocDisplay_ws_BI&spf_p.rid_kbDocDisplay=docDisplayResURL&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&spf_p.rst_kbDocDisplay=wsrp-resourceState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c03536849-15%257CdocLocale%253Den_US&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

Hope this helps

[rubygarg]

Thanks Brad for detail response.. 

Just one small query here. do we need to install WBEM providers or discovery would install these providers? 

If need to install then from where we can have that WBEM providers package?

[Brad Cunningham]

The full image can be downloaded here

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware/esxi-image.html

This image is no different that VMwares other than the Proliant wbem proverds have been added

For the add on bundle go to hp.com

Click support>download drivers

Enter your model and then select the version of vmware you are running.

Under Software - System Management you should see the bundle

[rubygarg]

Hi,

We have discovered system at HPSIM now. Hpow we can verify it this alerting is working fine. Could we generate any test alerts sotaht we can be ensure about this monitoring?

Thanks

[Andrew_Haak]

Hello there,

If you do a repair for your servers from the menu under repair you can make a wbem subscription and send a test event in the second screen. The first screen is to install software, the second is for configuring you software.

Under configure, you can also find the menu option manage communications. With this option you can check if sim can read the remote system and if it can receive events from it. If it can't it will hint you what you can do about it.

Kind regards,

Andrew