Thanks for the reply, but I'd already found all of those threads and they still left me confused.

That one has to do with adding it to Dell's monitoring application so I didn't know much of it applied to SIM. In particular with all of the port numbers, etc. On the side of the monitoring tool, it only talked about Dell's utility, not HP SIM.

I also found a document from HP which has a section on ESXi that says:

The VMware ESXi architecture also removed the use of SNMP agents for management. Therefore, HP enhanced HP SIM and Insight Control Virtual Machine Management Pack to integrate with Common Information Model (CIM) providers. CIM providers are a method of acquiring management data that relies on the industry-standard and widely-accepted CIM. The older SNMP/MIB model is a less robust data model for server management, that is more difficult to build in security, and that often must be modified for each vendor’s equipment.
The VMware ESXi hypervisor is shipped on a USB key pre-installed in the internal USB port of the server. The server boots directly from the USB key, so new servers are ready to run ESXi straight out of the box, providing simplified installation and host configuration while ensuring system reliability through active ProLiant management.
The HP implementation of the VMware ESXi integrated hypervisor enables the following:
• Active hardware management. The CIM providers in HP SIM are pre-installed along with VMware ESXi on the USB key. They pro-actively surface data for monitoring server hardware, providing the most up-to-date server state information possible.

(The full document is here: http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01067846/c01067846.pdf)

They specifically say that the SNMP/MIB model is not used so I assumed anything related to SNMP configuration was irrelevant.

Seems to be related to licensing, not to SIM.

The only additional stuff there was the reference guide which mentions the ports for CIM. Except that the guide lists a number of ports that are CIM related and it doesn't say which are used by HP or provide any guidance on how to open them. My understanding is that ESXi has no firewall to manage (and correspondingly there's no option for it in VC like there is for an ESX host) so that doesn't really help much. If there's a CIM provider there, then it should already be listening. As I mentioned, though, I attempted to discover the host with SIM and it found nothing.

This would be so much easier if HP would just put out a guide with steps 1-10 to add an ESXi host to SIM. Having to go seek out tiny puzzle pieces here and there is very frustrating.

Alright, I have this particular version downloaded and installed, what is required to enable the monitoring of these agents from CIM/SIM?

Do we just go through the normal proceedures for enabling SNMP, or is there something extra required for CIM/SIM to be able to connect?

Gene

Hmm... My HP SIM only lists connect via host name or ip address for discovery of a product. Wonder if I am running a version that is too old.

Gene

I must be missing something somewhere and it starting to become annoying.
When I add it initially to the SIM server, it just finds it as any basic device with an IP address. When I attempt to register the vmware linux host within SIM this is the error that I am getting

Running tool Enable Secure Communication with Linux Host with job id 290597.
Task Name :defRunNowTaskId_1213663127186_6
Job ID :290597
Tool Name :Enable Secure Communication with Linux Host
Job State :Complete
User Name :Domain\Admin
Execute As User :Firstname.Lastname
Start Time :Monday, June 16, 2008 6:38:47 PM MDT
End Time :Monday, June 16, 2008 6:38:47 PM MDT
Elapsed Time : 78 milliseconds
Node :simserver.domain.com
Status :Complete
Exit Code :255
STDOUT :
Enable Secure Communication with Linux Host 192.168.0.29
STDERR :
4.0 was unexpected at this time.

Running tool Run vmcli tool for register with job id 290598.
Task Name :defRunNowTaskId_1213663129217_7
Job ID :290598
Tool Name :Run vmcli tool for register
Job State :Complete
User Name :Domain\Admin
Execute As User :Firstname.Lastname
Start Time :Monday, June 16, 2008 6:38:49 PM MDT
End Time :Monday, June 16, 2008 6:44:56 PM MDT
Elapsed Time :6 minutes 6 seconds 852 milliseconds
Node :SIMserver.domain.com
Status :Complete
Exit Code
STDOUT :
Registering Agent on 10.2.0.29
Agent registration failed! - 10.2.0.29
An error occurred while registering agent 192.168.0.29. The error message is: The VMM agent cannot be connected..

Running tool Identify Systems with job id 290601.
Task Name :defRunNowTaskId_1213663497569_8
Job ID :290601
Tool Name :Identify Systems
Job State :Complete
User Name :Domain\Admin
Execute As User :Domain\Admin
Start Time :Monday, June 16, 2008 6:44:57 PM MDT
End Time :Monday, June 16, 2008 6:46:43 PM MDT
Elapsed Time :1 minute 45 seconds 362 milliseconds
Node :192.168.0.29
Status :Complete
Exit Code
STDOUT :
startId
idPluginStart.HttpPort
idPluginStart.HmmoLinks
smh.notsupported
idPluginStart.MxWBEMIdentifier
wbemidentifier.nosmiscimom
idPluginStart.MxWBEMRuleBasedIdentifier
wbem.csnotsupported
idPluginStart.MxVMHostIdentifier
wbem.vmnotsupported
idPluginStart.MxWSMANIdentifier
wsman.noresponse
idPluginStart.SnmpProto
snmp.noresponse
idPluginStart.CommonCluster
snmp.clusternotsupported
idPluginStart.SnmpProliant
snmp.notsupported
idPluginStart.SnmpNetserver
snmp.notsupported
idPluginStart.SnmpHPUX
snmp.notsupported
idPluginStart.SnmpSTM
snmp.notsupported
idPluginStart.DmiProto
dmi.nowindmi
idPluginStart.DmiSTM
dmi.nowindmi
idPluginStart.DmiHpUX
dmi.nohpuxdmi
idPluginStart.DmiCpq
dmi.nowindmi
idPluginStart.DmiHpMif
dmi.nohpdmi
idPluginStart.DmiGeneric
dmi.nogenericdmi
idPluginStart.MxSSHIdentifier
ssh.notsupported
idPluginStart.StorageIdentification
smi.notwbem
smi.stidentifdone
idPluginStart.IdentifyHPSGMembers
svcguard.wbem.notsupported
idPluginStart.IPMCompatible
iPMCompatible.failure
idPluginStart.VmHost
vmm.installed.isnothost
sysRelationship
limitedDc
limitedDcDone
noSMH
runDiagnosis
done

Yeah, I figured it out last night. Just wasn't drawing the correlation between CIM and WBEM.

Just download the latest version of ESXi from VMware it has all of the needed components in it for HP Monitoring via SIM.

Leonard...

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Not sure, but isn't there a way to monitor via iLO2?

Gene