HP Sim Agents on ESX4 - Do we need them?

[Michelle_Laveri]

I'm sorry. I'm bit confused.

Do we still need to install the HP Insight Management Agents in ESX4?

Does anyone know if HP have updated the agents to make them compatiable with ESX4?

Regards

Mike Laverick

RTFM Education

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

[Troy_Clavell]

I can't say it's a NEED thing, but for us it helps. HP has not, for some reason updated their public website, but the agents are available.

Here's what I got from my HP guy..... Haven't tested yet though

>The ftp site is: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p332370759/v49789

>Here’s the md5sum checksum for the file: 1a2b4a16500ced3c8e7fe5e00ffa743b

[Michelle_Laveri]

Brillant!

Thanks for the link. Lets HP gets its act together and get it on their main HP.com webpages soon!

Once again, thank you very much!

Regards

Mike Laverick

RTFM Education

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

[GergMN]

From what I hears at a VM Seminar yesterday, HP will be announcing their vSphere support & related products on Tuesday, June 2nd.

If I heard the HP speaker correctly, the new version no longer requires the agents.

[Michelle_Laveri]

OK, thanks for this...

Looking back I perhaps should have been a bit more careful in formulating my question.

I didn't think we would "need" them per-se because both versions of ESX have some kind of builtin SIM for the Health Status and other hardware reporting pages.

Clearly, as ESXi is "sealed" and cannot be modified no HP Agent will ever be manually installed.

It does seem to be the case that HP still allow people the "option" to install a HP SIM, as the link provided above. So perhaps what we can say is HW Agents are not required but they may be very desirable. If you want the same management info from ESX box as you would get from a Windows box with the HP sim installed to it... I guess in a coupla days time the agent will be on a more public location than it is currently...

Regards

Mike Laverick

RTFM Education

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

[Texiwill]

Hello,

I think that the HP Agents are not a 'need' but they do better reporting than CIM does in some cases. I tend to use both CIM and HPSIM to get detailed information about my systems....

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