SIM and VCRM (Version Control Repository Manager)

[Debby Granberg]

I have SIM 4.2 installed. The latest VCRM I can find to download is 2.0, but when I try to install it, SIM says this would be a downgrade.

If VCRM is included in SIM, how do I activate it? And if VCRM needs to be downloaded, where do I find version 2.1?

[Nick Hromyak]

If SIM 4.2 is installed, you simply go to

OPTIONS - VERSION CONTROL REPOSITORY...

Click on the server you want to have as the repository.

Remember there MUST be a trust established with whichever server you choose, even if it is your OWN SIM server.

Good luck.

[Debby Granberg]

When I click Version Control Repository, I get the following:
Error, the Version Control Repository Manager (VCRM) was not found on any discovered systems. If the VCRM is installed, be sure it is running and that the system it is running on has been discovered by HP Systems Insight Manager. To verify the VCRM is identified, view the Links tab on the system's Device Page. If the system is discovered, but the VCRM does not appear on the systems' Links tab, run an Identify Systems task to that system.

So I guess it's a trust issue. How do I get it to trust itself?

[James D. Young]

Check to see if the service is even running on the server. It will be listed as HP Version Control Repository Manager.

Make sure you have created the server certificate for HP Systems Insight manager. Go to the server that will be the repository, in my case its the same server.

Open the web browser and point to https://servername:2381

Go to the Settings Tab, Security, Trusted Management Server Certificates. If your management server does not show at the top then past the data from the one you created and import it.

Under Local/Anonymous Access I set mine to Local Access and Administrator.

Under Trust Mode, set to Trust by Certificate for highest security. You can set the other servers to all and then replicate trust by certificate to them.

Make sure SNMP community names are setup and that the server has access. I would change your keys from public and private. I lock my communictation on snmp to the server, but you also need to ad localhost and 127.0.0.1 as well.

Hopefully this will help fix it.

[Debby Granberg]

Well I don't have HP Version Control Repository Manager running, nor do I see it on any of the menus. Does it come bundled with SIM 4.2?

But your certificate information helped another problem I've been haveing. Now SIM comes up right away without complaining about certificates!

Thankx!

[James D. Young]

I installed it originally with 4.1, I am assuming it is there with 4.2. You should be able to run the install again and it will tell you if its not loaded.

Check under Add/Remove programs, it should show up in there as well as HP Version Control Repository Manager 2.1.

Go onto the local box and run the HP System Management Homepage Icon, this will connect to the localhost. You should see HP Version Control Repository Manager, if not, and you see it in add/remove programs, uninstall it and re-run HPSIM 4.2 setup and let it re-install it.

[Debby Granberg]

It is indeed in the add/remove program. And when a co-worker nudged me I looked under computer management and found that it is running. But I am still getting the VCRM not found message. And when I tried to open the homepage it said that there was no homepage.

I think it may be another certificate problem, or something about hosts. Because when the certificate(s) were generated they used hostname, but when I tried to open the homepage it said that hostname.xx.xx.com did not have a homepage.

[Ole Thomsen_1]

Maybe you accidentally played around with IP binding.

Try connecting to https://localhost:2381 from the SIM server and have a look at settings - homepage - security

Regards,
Ole

[Debby Granberg]

The IP Binding is not checked, and all the boxes are blank. Is that good or bad?

[James D. Young]

Your IP Binding should be checked and the first line should be the static IP of that server, and its associated mask.

[Debby Granberg]

Nope. Still can't see the homepage nor open VCRM.

[James D. Young]

So from the local server you are not getting to the http://localhost:2381 home page? It that is correct, what do you get?

[Debby Granberg]

additional information....

I can open SIM by connectting to http://localhost:280
I can open SIM by connectting to http://hostname:280
I cannot open SIM by connectting to http://hostname.xx.xx.com

[Debby Granberg]

I can open localhost:2831. And I did enable IP binding and added my IP address and mask. But when I next opened SIM I was still not able to open the homepage via tools -> System Information -> System Management Homepage.

[James D. Young]

To me it sounds like the trust between the HPSIM and the server itself. When you go under Options, Security, Server Certificate, does the certificate show up.

Mine shows as the servername with full DNS name.

Make sure this is the same certificate that you did a copy past within the Homepage. And set some of the other settings that I suggested earlier for Login/Anonymous access, and trust mode.

when you do it from within Insight Manager, do you get the login page at all?

You could play with the System Link Configuration and see if one of the other settings works better in your situation.

[Debby Granberg]

The certificate shows up as simply hostname.

I'm not sure what you mean about login. I'm able to login to SIM.

I'll look at the link configuration.

[James D. Young]

when you click on the icon under the HW or click on Tools, System Information, System Management Homepage.

Does it go to a login page or directly into the hompage for the server.

Depending on what you get will determine if the trust is working or not.

[Debby Granberg]

It just says there is no homepage for that system

[James D. Young]

Have you checked to see if the HP System Management Homepage service is running? Check all the HP services.

[Debby Granberg]

Yes those were running.

Unfortunately a peer was trying to help me and it made things worse. Now when I try to open the SIM window it just disappears. No error message. Nothing in the event log. Just gone. I tried to uninstall and reinstall, and the problem is the same.

So for now I am back to just trying to get it running again.

Thank you for all your patience and help.

Debby