Earlier today I just added a ESX 3.5 U2 host to my HP-SIM server. The only thing I did was install the Insight Agent (latest version available) on my ESX host. Add my root username and password to the WBEM information under global protocol settings, and do a manual discovery of the ESX host ip address. Seemed to work fine.
Here's the stderr output from my latest Indentify task of the esx host:
Starting identification process...
Checking for known running web servers.
Checking for System Management Home Page and other HP web agents.
Received a response from the system management homepage, this system supports SM
H.
Checking for WBEM support on system.
This system has WBEM protocol support
This system has at least one SMI-S CIMOM installed
This system doesn´t have a server CIMOM installed locally, or cannot connect to
it using all credentials specified
Running WBEM rules based identification.
Cannot get ComputerSystem WBEM/WMI data from the system
Running VM Identification
The system is a VMware ESX Host and has guests running on it
Running WS-Man identification.
The system did not respond to WS-Management, verify credentials.
Checking for SNMP support on system.
The system responded to a SNMP request, it supports SNMP.
Running SNMP base Cluster identification using common cluster MIB.
This was not a system with the common cluster MIBs supported.
Running HP ProLiant management agent identification
System has the SNMP ProLiant server (foundation) agents installed, adding system
type.
Running HP NetServer identification.
System supports the NetServer SNMP agent, adding system type
Running HP-UX SNMP identification.
System does not have the HPUX SNMP agents installed.
Running SNMP System Type Manager identification.
Found matching SNMP System Type Manager rule, added as possible system type
Checking for DMI protocol support.
The Windows CMS cannot communicate with HP-UX or other DMI, skipping.
Running DMI System Type Manager identification.
The system does not have Windows DMI support.
Running HP-UX DMI identification.
The system does not have HP-UX DMI support.
Running HP/Compaq Desktop identification.
The system does not have Windows DMI support.
Running HP DMI Desktop identification.
The system does not have HP DMI Desktop support.
Running Generic DMI identification.
The system does not have Generic DMI support.
Checking for SSH protocol support.
The system supports SSH protocol
Running Storage identification.
There were no storage profiles found on this system.
Storage identification completed.
Running HP Service Guard Identification.
The system is not part of HP Service Guard cluster
Checking if this system is supported by Insight Power Manager.
Insight Power Manager is not supported.
Running VM identification.
VMM is installed, but the system is not a VM Host or may not be configured in VM
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Building system relationships.
Running limited data collection for common attribute.
Done with limited data collection, checking retrieved data.
The SSH is not configured on this system
SMH trust status is false.
Running node communication diagnosis
System identification done with this system.
edit - sorry for the formatting.... the copy/paste didnt seem to work quite right.
