SERIOUS ISSUE! Please help. I changed the snmp registry settings on our windows server park via AD

[OhhBee-1]

Hi,

Changed the SNMP registry settings, accepted host and trap destination, on our windows server park with AD.Recommended procedure by a local HP guy. After that the agents are behaving very strange. In SMH I get no failed\degraded systems, every link I press the browser times out. It's very strange. I've restarted the agents during troubleshooting without result. What is happening here? How do I go about this?

Regards,
P

[Rob Buxton]

What registry settings? I've never had to touch any registry settings for snmp.

Changing the accepted host and destination shouldn't cause issues providing the host matches your HPSIM server and the community names used also match.
Have you tried restarting snmp and all dependent services?

Otherwise you may need to try and undo whatever registry changes got made.

You mention AD, are you saying changes were made in the AD?

[OhhBee-1]

Hi,

Well, the changes were made with a group policy. The reason for this was that we have a lot of W2K3 servers which by default don't accept snmp from any hosts. So instead of doing this manually on each server we used the group policy. The changes that were made does match the CMS, by the way.

What does it actually mean when all you see in SMH is no/failed degraded systems? There are no entry in the homepage log which look suspiciuos. It's not even able to resolve the model name of the server which usually is shown in the upper right corner. I can't even browse to the snmp settings in the SMH because it times out.

The SMH log on one of the nodes is attached

[OhhBee-1]

The problem was that gp set the "accepted hosts" to only the hp sim server, not both localhost and the server.

Thanx 4 reply

[Rob Buxton]

Yes snmp does need local host as well.
There is an option within HPSIM to replicate settings to other servers and this does include the snmp settings.
So you can make a change on a single server and then use those details as the source to replicate to others.

[OhhBee-1]

Is it possible to replicate snmp settings to nodes where the snmp service does not accept any hosts except local? Reason why I'm asking is that I believed it uses the SNMP protocol for this as well and if that is the case then it will be blocked, won't it?