VMWare Automatic Event Handling

[Graeme Bray]

I'm attempting to get Automatic Event Handling (AEH) set up for our VMWare servers to alert on hardware. I've selected all Major, Minor, Critical, Warning states to send e-mails to us.

I've verified that I can send an e-mail from the host 2003 server to our smtpmail server.

I cannot get an alert when I pull a power supply from the server. We need to get hardware alerts, so..does anyone have any ideas?

[Rob Buxton]

Are the Host Servers HP?
Are they running ESX or VMware Server?
Have you installed the appropriate HP Agents?

The process is the same as for other OSes. Agents on the server detect the issue. These then use SNMP to send a trap to the HPSIM Server.
You need a suitable line in the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file e.g.
trapsink HPSIMServer.myco.com OurROCommName

[Graeme Bray]

DL380 G5, DL385 G1 and DL580 G2 servers. They're running ESX 3.5 U4. I'll have to pass on other part to our VMWare guy..I'm just trying to help him get it working.

[Rob Buxton]

The HP Agents can be downloaded from:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=3709945&prodSeriesId=2510357&prodNameId=3288154&swEnvOID=4025&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-c79cd61afc1543f2868f969dfa

Download & copy the file to an ESX Host. Extract the tar file.
Read the README file and I also recommend editing up the example hpmgmt.conf file and using that in a silent install. It ensures you have a consistent SNMP file across multiple servers - saves typing and typos.