SNMP traps to external application

[Andrew McCandless]

Hi Everyone,
Hopefully quite a simple question. I'm trying to get HP servers to send SNMP traps upon hardware failure to an external application. From reading about SIM, it seems I have to set up SIM agents on each server, than have a SIM server poll each server. Is this correct or have I totally misunderstood how the system is set up?

Is there an HP application that can installed on each server that will send SNMP traps directly to a monitoring system? I've been reading on the HP website but it doesn't give many clues!

Thanks for any assistance.

[marsh_1]

hi,

the insight management agents on each system are autonomous, hp sim is a central management server that can be used for reporting,event alerting and software deployment among other things. hp sim polls servers as a basic availability check, events on the servers are detected and sent by the agents to hp sim , snmp destinations are configurable in the agents. obviously any other management application would need to understand the traps sent by the insight agents

hth

[marsh_1]

BTW if you already have hp sim it can be set up to forward events from it's managed servers to another management application.

fwiw

[Andrew McCandless]

Thanks for the answer, that's cleared that up greatly. Sorry to take up your time.

[Andrew McCandless]

Thanks