9300 support in PCM

[Jason Scott]

I have PCM successfuly setup to access out 5300s and 2600 switches but the configuration scans always fail for our 9300s.

Could someone confirm how the 9300 should be setup to allow PCM to connect? Currently we have only an enable password and read only/read write community strings configured.

Thanks,

[Gonzo Granello]

Hi, given you run somewhat current firmware you need to turn on FDP / CDP on the 9300's. The command is fdp run / cdp run. Too bad the procurve guys can't get the manuals or help right on this and make it easy for customers to make those settings. The reason why it's not working out the box is that the "black boxes" (9300's) are not "invented" by hp and therefore hp has very little control over the default settings (not much different than on their boxes unfurtunatley) and that's why you need to turn it on. Even worse there is no "help" screen in PCM to do so. So much for customer focused.....

[Jason Scott]

Sorry I didn't word my initial question properly. PCM is seeing the 9300s and can pull of the interface lists and so forth, but it cannot pull down the configuration, nor can we implement any policies or changes from PCM.

With our other switches it was a matter of correctly setting the switches logon procedure and making sure the snmp-server community strings were enabled for manager and unrestricted access.

[Guillermo Azcárraga · Accepted solution]

For some reason the 9300 performs an extra password check (separate from the rw coomunity) when polled for the configuration.
The following command will solve your problem.

no snmp-server pw-check

Hope this helps

[Jason Scott]

Excellent! That worked perfectly. thank you!!!