SIM 5.0 and VMWare ESX Traps

[David Filas]

We've been testing SIM 5.0 with ESX 2.5 which is running the Insight Agents 7.40B.

If we physicall pull a hard drive from the array, SIM doesn't pick this up and no event is generated. However, if I go to the System MAnagement Homepage on the ESX server and press the send test trap button, I get a warning event in SIM immediately.

I was thinking that traps for a failed component is different from a trap generated from just removing a device (I've seen this with power supply traps before), and wonder if maybe this explains why SIM does not do anything when a drive is simply removed.

Any ideas?