HP PSP and MiBs

[Dave Murphy_2]

Hi,

I am looking to monitor all the hardware (DL380 G4) and the services of a particular solution I am working on. I have installed the HP PSP 7.30 for Windows. The polers we are using only pole for particular OID's, but I want them to increase their poling and also manipulate other SNMP traps which the Server sends out.

I am being told that our techies on the remote platform need to know what MiBs are being used within the HP PSP 7.30 in order to do this and integrate what is being poled for or what traps are being sent back. Does anyone know this or are the PSP and MiBs completely separate entities?

[Phil.Howell]

As I understand it (which may be out of date)
you run the insight agents on the machine to be monitored - these should be included in the PSP. The monitoring machine (your remote platform) can be running Insight Manager or HP SIM or other 3rd party tool.
The following link contains the MIBs that Insight Manager or HP SIM need.
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/23305.html
Phil

[Dave Murphy_2]

Thanks Phil,

Thought that there more be something in terms of MiBs as traps can be seen going through, however unsure what they are using on the poler at the moment. Do you know if there is versioning within the CIM agents in the PSP? and possible what the version of the DB (MiBs) will be?

[Phil.Howell]

Thought that there more be something in terms of MiBs as traps can be seen going through, however unsure what they are using on the poler at the moment. Do you know if there is versioning within the CIM agents in the PSP? and possible what the version of the DB (MiBs) will be?

I don't really understand your question.
I have only used the compaq insight agents and Insight Manager 7, so I don't really know how HP have packaged it. I just used it "out of the box" without any special configuration.
Phil

[Dave Murphy_2]

OK, the agents with SNMP can send the traps anywhere, mostly to some kind of management station using CIM or HP. In order for the end station to determine the trap and OID sent it needs to know what it is i.e. usually through a MiB set. You can then write appropriate help text to match up with what the trap is and display that on your final destination system.

Problem is I do not know whether the MiBs are within the PSP or should be loaded separately onto the system where the traps are being sent and what version the MiBs should be.

Does that make sense?

[Phil.Howell · Accepted solution]

I would have expected that the psp would contain the latest version of the agents (and therefore the up to date mibs) but I don't know what the installation options are, however you could install the agents again from
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22359.html
The link I mentioned earlier has a mib compiler and the .cfg and .mib files needed at the management end.
Phil

[Dave Murphy_2]

Thanks for your time Phil will have a look.