Thank you Andrew for quick response!
We were able to finally get it working - only as root (SUSE Linux) logging into HP SMH & using VCA to connect to VCRM only locally from SUSE server.
I had setup a local account that was part of hpsmh group on SUSE, and it had all the privileges to access HP SMH & VCA, but not connect to VCRM (doing this all remotely from https://SUSEserver:2381). Even root privs did not work remotely. Not sure why remotely does not work.
Thank you