Setting up Managed Systems in ICE-Linux without the ProLiant Service Pack

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Setting up Managed Systems in ICE-Linux without the

ProLiant Service Pack

White Paper

HP SIM Managed Servers..................................................................................................................... 2

Discovery and Management ................................................................................................................. 2

HP SIM Discovery ............................................................................................................................ 2

ColdStart Trap Discovery............................................................................................................... 2

Configuration and Data Collection ................................................................................................. 3

SNMP ............................................................................................................................................ 3

ProLiant Support Pack ....................................................................................................................... 4

Agentless Installations........................................................................................................................... 4

Advantages of Agentless Installations ................................................................................................. 4

Disadvantages of Agentless Installation............................................................................................... 5

Agentless Installation Mechanism ....................................................................................................... 5

Agentless OID Data Types............................................................................................................. 6

Configuring the SNMP Agent to Service OIDs.................................................................................. 6

For more information.......................................................................................................................... 10

Summary of content (10 pages)

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Setting up Managed Systems in ICE-Linux without the ProLiant Service Pack White Paper HP SIM Managed Servers..................................................................................................................... 2 Discovery and Management ................................................................................................................. 2 HP SIM Discovery ............................................................................................................................
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HP SIM Managed Servers HP Systems Insight Management (HP SIM) is a centralized management system with many ways of finding a managed system and collecting data about it. The requirements for a management system range from responding to an ICMP ping command to supporting specialized data collection agents. HP SIM uses these sources of information to classify and to further assess the management capabilities of a system.
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However, HP SIM can be configured to respond to an SNMP event (or trap) of type ColdStart to automatically discover the server associated with the IP address in the received trap. Installing the ICE-Linux plug-in automatically enables the discover on event feature of HP SIM. On receipt of a trap, if the server with the included IP is recognized as one already in the HP SIM database, the complete discovery procedure (that is, discover, identification, and data collection) is abridged to just discovery.
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online and registered their willingness to provide service with the master agent. The subagents extend the branches of the tree and provide additional information. ProLiant Support Pack The ProLiant Support Pack is an optional collection of agents and drivers that HP provides for installation after a GNU/Linux operating system is installed.
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When it is running with a full complement of ProLiant Support Pack agents, the daemon, augmented with the PSP subagents, can take more time to respond. If the reply takes too much time, the association between the management processor and the server might be lost. If a node is found in the manageable state, but without MAC information, it can be verified by consulting the nodes data collection results webpage. You can correct it by: • Ensuring the agent or agents are running and available.
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.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.10.1.0 .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.2.2.4.2.0 .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.9.2.2.10.0 .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.10.3.0 MibStatusArray ProductName CntlrAgentLocation (get RIB info) HostGUID Additional OIDs, like the following, can be serviced in order to cause HP SIM to collect additional information, such as the specific GNU/Linux operating system type, and display it in the collections server type column for a node. .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.2.1.
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The location of the SNMP master agent configuration file might differ for other GNU/Linux operating systems, Solaris™, FreeBSD®, or other potential GNU-like or UNIX-like operating systems. There should be a minimal SNMP service configuration within the snmpd.conf file. If the file does not exist, or if it is empty, you may need: • To copy an example snmpd.conf file from the /usr/share/doc/net-snmp directory, • To construct one using snmpcmd, or • To create one manually.
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The format of the directive is the command pass, followed by the OID in numeric form, followed by the script to run. The script must be referenced with path information, it must be executable, and it must return the following data: 1. The OID it is servicing 2. The data type of the response 3. The data Here is an example for the external executable script, /etc/snmp/CntlrAgentLocation.sh: #!/bin/sh echo .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.9.2.2.10.
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/etc/snmp/MibStatusArray.sh #!/bin/sh echo .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.10.1.0 echo octet_str echo “01 02 08 00 00 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00” 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 The snmpd.
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