Monitor Hardware failures on ESX hosts (HP SIM)

[eagleh]

Hi there,

Please bear with me. I am pretty new to HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager). My goal is to monitor hardware failures (power supply, temperture, memory, etc.) on my two ESX hosts (VI3.5). They are HP Proliant DL360 G5 boxes, so HP SIM seems to be the solution. I have HP SIM server installed, and have SIM Agent installed on both hosts too. HP SIM has detected both servers and seems working. However,

Q1: on the SIM page, one host shows "ProLiant DL360 G5", while another shows just "Linux Server", why is that?

Q2: It seems I can only get some alerts (sent through email) on event level but without any further specified hardware failures. How do I set it up to clarify if it's from power supply, memory , etc.?

Q3: I downloaded HP SIM 5.2 from HP website. I don't see any license involved. I am sure I am missing something because I see tehre is a "License manager" in SIM, what is that for?

Many thanks for your help.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Well first things first, check out http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/HPSIM_and_ESX for some tips. But in this case you really need to use the HP Support forums for assistance or call for HPSIM support.

Q1: on the SIM page, one host shows "ProLiant DL360 G5", while another shows just "Linux Server", why is that?

Something during the identify stage reported things differently between the servers. This could be related to HPSMH, HPASM, the SNMP stack, and other aspects. To be properly identified, the servers should have HPASM installed upon them, with a proper SNMP stack setup.

Q2: It seems I can only get some alerts (sent through email) on event level but without any further specified hardware failures. How do I set it up to clarify if it's from power supply, memory , etc.?

You need proper SNMP connectivity to the ESX host. Sometimes that is not correctly setup. But once more this is an HPSIM specific question.

Q3: I downloaded HP SIM 5.2 from HP website. I don't see any license involved. I am sure I am missing something because I see tehre is a "License manager" in SIM, what is that for?

Add on products like VMM (Virtual Machine Manager), VPM (Vulnerability and Patch Management), PMP (Performance Management Pack), Insight Power Managent, ILO Advanced, etc.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[williamarrata]

I would try looking into this web site and as Texwill said, you may want to try calling HP and contacting there virtual dept for SIM. Here is the Link for there Plug In.

Hope that helped.