First of all let me thank all of your for your time and comments.
Let me try and reply to each one.
Andrew : Unfortunetly this is the only box that I'm trying to monitor at this point. I was sort of using it as a test bed to see how well things were going to work. all the windows firewalls are disabled on the SIM box.
BPE: I have tried restarting the CIM Server on the esxi host. from the SIM I am able to see the WBEM information (the subsystems of memory, proc etc etc) . I don't believe that I have insite remote support ? I'm assuming since the WMI mapper services are running that the account shouldn't be an issue ?
Tushar : I am using a Vanilla ESXi install. I believe I have all the required components ?
~ # esxcli software vib list | grep hp-smx
hp-smx-provider 500.03.03.20.2-434156 Hewlett-Packard VMwareAccepted 2014-01-03
~ #
I have tried resubscribing to the WBEM events again and still no luck. I will post some screen captures in a few posts to see if anyone has any further thoughts.
Thanks again for the comments. !
Dave