Odd HPSIM issues

[Mike Gentles]

Here are some strange things I am seeing at a customer site and find them all odd and very inconsistent...maybe someone can shed some light on them for me.

1. iLo/RiLoe cards - a few of them are not properly associated with the host server. But the number of them changes almost daily. Today there was only 3 - the other 300 were fine. Last week appox 5-10 were messed up and someone how fixed themself. Of the ones messed up, some show up in Sys Homepage properly, some dont. Some show up in the system page of HPSIM, and some dont. Not the same ones either - very strange. All settings look correct. All drivers/PSP/FW is fully up to date.

2. Some Linux servers ( but not all ) are being discovered, but no info is found or reported from them. I assume this is an agent/snmp issue, but have not looked into as of yet. Anything as a gotcha ?

3. They are also running some IBM Blades (I dont know why either.....these guys dont like em either) anyhooo, I need to download the MIBS for them to compile into HPSIM, but the IBM website is all but useless when looking this info. Anyone happen to know a good place to look for this?

Mike

[Albert Austin]

Hi,

1. Not noticed it in my environment.

2. I have experienced this same issue, been fighting with the same SNMP/Agent issue but to no success. Will give it a try again today.

3. Dont know of IBM blades, but I do know SIM has by default many IBM MIBS in its package you could check and see if you find what you looking for there.
C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\mibs

[Scott Robey]

1. What SP level are you at with SIM? SP4 addresses an association issue with the ilo/rilo and server associations. Also these are prone to correcting themselves over time.

2. Compare snmpd.conf files with ones that are working versus ones that are not. Make sure DNS is properly configured and the SIM server can perform both forward and reverse lookups on the Linux servers. Might want to also rem out entries in the snmpd.conf file that are assiging community strings to localhost or the loopback address and make sure at least a RO community string is assigned to the IP address that SIM has discovered and that SIM is using that RO community string.

3. Not sure. If the blades are running Windows then WMI can be configured to collect all the information.

Keep us informed.