Hello Jon,
Sure you can use HP SIM for just that task. The first thing you need to have management agents installed on al of your servers. You need at least the System Management agent, Hp-snmp-agents and a snmp package to monitor the servers. You do not need to install all SPP / PSP packages. The agents mentioned above would be for a Linux server, there are also packages for Windows any version.
When you've installed the agents on all or a selection of your servers you can use one of your servers to install HP SIM on. The software is available in a Windows or Linux version.
Then you need a SQL or Oracle database to connect HP SIM to. Once you have that setup configure a trust from HP SIM to your servers and set snmp or wbem traps to the HP SIM server. Once you get your snmp or wbem events you can setup email notification to any adres you want to send your alarms to.
Hope this helps, i could go into details if you want, this is just a pointer what you could/should do.
Kind regards,
Andrew
Sure you can use HP SIM for just that task. The first thing you need to have management agents installed on al of your servers. You need at least the System Management agent, Hp-snmp-agents and a snmp package to monitor the servers. You do not need to install all SPP / PSP packages. The agents mentioned above would be for a Linux server, there are also packages for Windows any version.
When you've installed the agents on all or a selection of your servers you can use one of your servers to install HP SIM on. The software is available in a Windows or Linux version.
Then you need a SQL or Oracle database to connect HP SIM to. Once you have that setup configure a trust from HP SIM to your servers and set snmp or wbem traps to the HP SIM server. Once you get your snmp or wbem events you can setup email notification to any adres you want to send your alarms to.
Hope this helps, i could go into details if you want, this is just a pointer what you could/should do.
Kind regards,
Andrew