1. Under health status i can only see a green tick next to ping. I was hoping see everything like when you use SNMP and it shows storage, nics etc, do you not get this with wbem, and it you don't. When a disk fails will it show? or is it not managing hardware faults?
It should show the component like how you see snmp. the HP Providers is what SIM talks to when monitoring. Do an options > Data collection to see if that works correctly for that host. Also do a hw/sw status polling when data collection finishes. If you want hardware wbem issues to be received by HP SIM, do an options > Event > Subscribe to wbem events.
2. I've noticed that HP SIM has now found the VM's running on it. We already hve monitoring tools on the VM's so I don't need any more for the VM's. So is there a ways of monitoring the ESX Host without it showing you the VM's running?
You will need to disable sim from picking up the VM when a VM host is discovered option. Option > Discovery > Configure general settings (hyperlink) > Uncheck {Automatically discover VM guest(s) when the host is identified.}
3. Obviously you don't have root access in windows, so to run WBEM on a windows box, do you need just local admin rights when running the discovery to pick up WBEM?
Yes
