SIM Proactive failure analysis

[kingston7]

How can I set up proactive failure analysis on a ESX host. Is this possible.

[fred Passeron]

Hi

Can you explain a bit more ?

Are you talking about prefailure warranty alerts ?

fred

[Rob Buxton]

With HP hardware with the HP Agents installed that's what happens. The agents monitor the hardware and will advise if any pre-failure conditions are detected.
You need to install the Proliant Support Pack suitable for your hardware. You need to configure SNMP to send traps to HPSIM.

[kingston7]

Yes fred prefailure warranty alerts. But I think rob hit on it well. Can you add to Rob commments or just running th PSP and configuring SNMP traps would work. do I have to do any addtional config in SIM or RSP. I have one issue ESX doesn't have a PSP.

[Rob Buxton]

A PSP is available for ESX. Go to HP.COM, select Softwe & Drivers, enter the HP Model number and then go from there.
It's not available for ESXi - for that you need the HP ESXi Bundle and it uses wbem, not SNMP.