Re: Agentless monitoring with SIM7.x - first time using and I have questions
I am sure you know that "agentless" monitoring is a Gen8+ feature only. So, just a few things need to be done to make this work:- Install the "HP Agentless Management Service" (aka AMS) on the server....
View ArticleRe: iLO and Host Association Issue
Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse - What I am trying to do is use AMS + iLO for discoveries and these are all Windows machines. The ESX hosts actually worked very nicely. I updated all the Windows...
View ArticleRe: SW Unknown HPSIM7.3
Are you using the version control agent (VCA)? There is some additional setup required to get that all working. It's going to be in the Version Control Repository section of the admin guide.
View ArticleRe: Insight Remote Support Monitoring & Email Alerts
I think you need to decide what you are looking to do. SIM can send you emails on hardware events without Insight Remote Support. IRS is for use with systems that have a valid HP contract. I would...
View ArticleRe: change the severity of an event in HP SIM 7.4
My workaround was basically to create another event collection based on attributes that only looked for the specific events, but would include warning and minor in addition to major and critical, so...
View ArticleRe: HP SIM 7.4 & ILO2 error
Hello again, I've attached the ILO2 log for one of my discovery of an ILO. If you open the log you can see the following : Normal: The system responded to an SNMP request; it supports SNMP Protocol...
View ArticleRe: HP SIM 7.4 & ILO2 error
I have checked again and run a new discovery with SNMP timeout increased to 30 seconds and it still fails.Ive tried running an SNMP walk on the ILO but it doesnt respond.Is it possible that the...
View ArticleRe: HP SIM 7.4 & ILO2 error
I'm running out of options, is the firewall of the SIM server active? If so try to disable it just to test that's not the problem. You could check if the traps directory under the SIM installation...
View ArticleRe: iLO and Host Association Issue
Hello again, i will setup some servers to use the agent less option to see what happens on Windows servers. I've only used it on ESX servers so far. It's about time to configure the Gen8 servers to...
View ArticleHow to create custom HP SPP baseline using command line?
Hi,I'm trying to create a custom HP SPP baseline using hpsum command line. Is it possible? I know I can create via hpsum web GUI but I want to create using CLI interface instead.
View ArticleRe: HP SIM 7.4 & ILO2 error
I have already tried disabling the firewall on the SIM server. I didn't see much activity in the traps folder. I didnt have an HP server to test SNMP againt but i setup SNMP on a VMWare server and...
View ArticleRe: HP SIM 7.4 & ILO2 error
Indeed if this discovery worked SNMP seems just fine.one thing you could try is load the MIB update. You are already running the last mibs but perhaps that there's a problem eith the existing MIBs.
View ArticleInsight Manager default system types
Does anyone know if there is a way to make a mass change of a system type? Insight Manager classified all our vdi workstations as servers. Since they come and go, numerous false positives under health...
View ArticleMonitor C7000 Enclosure via HPSIM
Hi All, I need to monitor few of my C7000 Enclosures using HPSIM , i dont find any guides or how to's on the internet.any official documentation or blog links would be very much helpfull.Thanks in...
View ArticleRe: Monitor C7000 Enclosure via HPSIM
Hi, Run a discovery in HP SIM on the IP addresses of the Onboard Administrator modules in the enclosures. Don't forget in the Global Credentials list to add the admin accounts and passwords of the OA...
View ArticleHP SIM 7.3 error during running export utility
Dear all, I would like to ask you for help. Currently I am performing export of HP SIM 7.3.0 via mxexport utility. But I am not able to finish export. When I run mxexport after while I receive this...
View ArticleRe: Monitor C7000 Enclosure via HPSIM
Hello Bart, Thank you for you valuable suggestion, i was able to discover the enclosure along with the ILO's inside with the default administrator credentials , question now is what would be the rights...
View ArticleRe: Monitor C7000 Enclosure via HPSIM
So basically we have just 3 privileges , Administrator, Operator, User with user being the least with read only rights.So can i create a new user with "User" priviliges ?Will it continue to monitor the...
View ArticleRe: Monitor C7000 Enclosure via HPSIM
Pure monitoring can happen even with SNMP, so without logging on into ILO... You can set also SNMP traps to be send from the ILO towards the SIM servers... SIM does much more, like data collection and...
View ArticleRe: Version Control Repository Manager 7.2.2 eats up all memory
I found a solution to this. I'm running HP-SIM 7,3 update 2 on a windows 2008 R2 VM, 2 cores, 8 GB of RAM. I found by running VCRM under a userid instead of localsystem appears to have resolv/////ed...
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