Which HP Agents on ESX 3.5?

[egr]

Hi,

I know that there several posts regarding this.

But my question is a bit different (I hope):

We have some HP DL 360G5 running ESX 3.5 and we would like to monitor these systems (RAID etc.).

1. On the support pages for that server I find the "HP System Management Homepage for Linux"

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15...

But there it is said that 3.0 is supported, 3.5 is not mentioned.

searching this board I find this link:

2. HP Management Agents for VMware ESX Server 3.x

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=MTX-c72eeb5b13b94981...;

So I am a bit confused which package I have to install...

If 1 does it run under ESX 3.5 and which version do I have to install (x86 or EMT64)?

Or can I install the management agents (2) and get a website from which I can monitor the hardware?

Thanks in advance!

Regards

/egr

[jaygriffin · Accepted solution]

You want link #2

[Texiwill]

Hello,

For VMware ESX you need the agents specifically for VMware. Never ever install the straight Linux agents. That would cause some pretty spectacular disasters.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

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

[jaygriffin]

And that would be link #2.

I am surprised that HP even listed VMware under the Linux agent. Dangerous.

[Troy_Clavell]

here's a great link... and at the bottom it also has a link to Insight Manager 8.0

[lholling]

I prefer this link because it tells you what VMware believe to be the correct version of agents for each version of ESX

http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/sys_mgmt_links.html

Leonard...

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[Texiwill]

Hello,

Unfortunately that document is not up to date for v3.x of ESX. For v3.5.x you should use 8.0.0a of HPASM. For v3.0.x you can use 7.9.x but I would still upgrade to 8.0.0a.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

====

Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

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

[Schorschi]

8.0.0a is explicitly required for ESX 3.5 U1. 8.0.0a has two know issues...

1) HP IML can report NICs as offline when HP NIC subagent shows green status. Clicking the IML refresh button a few times a few seconds a part can now the save events green the red then green again. You may also see cmanicd in TOP running at 99% This problem was seen in 7.9.1 and is inconsistent. Stopping and starting hpasm does not always help, and a reboot sometimes clears the issue of the 99% issue, but it can return.

2) System Management Page Timeout, the workaround is to do the following...

1. service hpasm stop

2. service snmpd stop

1. service snmpd start

2. service hpasm start

This problem has been an issue off and on since 7.4.1. It is inconsistent but seems to be worse in 3.5 and 3.5U1.