Proliant + Linux + PSP +unicentre

[Brendan Murphy_5]

Hi
I have a customer who wants CA unicentre to monitor a bunch of DL 580 proliants running RHEL5.3. These all have the latest PSP installed. My questions are:

1. Does the PSP supply all the required insight agents? ... or do I need to install anything else?

2. One the Proliant servers is it only the SNMP that needs to be configured to point to the Unicentre server or is there something else that should be done.

3. On the Unicentre server, do I just install the HP MIBS & expect everything to work nicely or is there something else that needs to be done here too?

4. HP supply Insight Integration software for unicentre. .... a requirement of this is a HP SIM server ... Must I use the insight integration software or can I just install the MIBS as above?

5. If I don't have to use Insight integration software for Unicentre, then what additional benefits does it provide?

Kind Regards,

Brendan

[Rob Buxton]

I can't answer all as I've not used unicentre.
PSP supplies the agent and will install configure snmp if required.
SNMP needs to have the trap destination set to point to the server receiving the traps (unicentre in this case).
For HPSIM, snmp is also used to identify the server, that requires a RO community name and the server set as an allowed host. I don't know how unicentre would ID the server.
If you can laod the HP MIBs into unicentrethaen yes, but there are a lot of HP MIBs. Maybe the unicentre docs would help you there.
For HPSIM integration it depends on what functionality you want. HPSIM offers integration into remote support etc. you'd lose that. But unicentre should give you basic identification and fault handling / monitoring. You'd need to look at waht HP SIM does and then see if there's functionality that your missing that you want.