SIM does not recognize VMware ESX on DL585

[Brad Allen]

I'm running HP SIM 4.2 SP2 and it reports the following summary information:
System Type: Unknown
Product Name:
OS Name:

I've imported the latest MIB package from PSP 7.30 and the VMware MIBs. anyone gotten this stuff to display correctly?

[Rob Buxton]

That would imply SNMP on the ESX Server is not correctly set up.

Have you installed the HP Agents for ESX? They contain their own SNMP and the installation asks for the SNMP Config details.

Once done and identified, you will still need to manually set the sub-type to vmware host (or something like that)

[Brad Allen]

I have installed and configured the 7.2 Agents. I can get to the Systems Management Homepage fine.

[Brad Allen]

I think you're probably right about the SNMP service on the ESX host. The agents added the following line to snmpd.conf

rwcommunity 127.0.0.1

I think I need to replace the loopback address with the equivalent to "accept packets from any host".

Apparently, I can replace 127.0.0.1 with a specific IP address or "default"

[Brad Allen]

replacing:

rwcommunity 127.0.0.1

with:

rwcommunity default

solved my problem.