Managing your HP-UX inventory with HP SIM (430146-002, January 2009)

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Introduction
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is a robust, full
-
featured infrastructure management tool. This
paper discusses how to use HP SIM for managing inventory data from your HP
-
UX servers. Topics
discussed are:

Configuri
ng the managed servers

Configuring the Central Management Server (CMS)

Collecting inventory data

Mining inventory data
Experts in scripting and HP
-
UX Software Distributor commands can take advantage of the Appendix,
where it is explained how to use HP SIM
to make managed server setup easier.
This paper assumes that HP SIM, and all required components, are installed and functional on the
CMS.
Configuring the managed servers
Managed server setup is dependent on the version of HP
-
UX running on the server. This
setup must be
performed on each HP
-
UX managed server to collect and manage inventory information.
HP
-
UX11iv1
–
SNMP, WBEM
WBEM
–
Install and configure WBEM services and WBEM providers.
1.
Install WBEM services,”
WBEMSv
c
s”
, if not previously installed
.
2.
WBEM pr
oviders “
WBEMSvc
s
” for 11iv1 are available at
HP SIM website,
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim
.
At the website, click
Download HP SIM
, then
click
HP SIM
–
HP
-
UX
, and scroll down to the section titled,
Supporting Softwa
re for Managed
Systems
to find the list of WBEM providers. Some WBEM providers require root account access
for the data to be collected, so login as root when installing the providers.
SNMP
–
Change the read community string and trap destination to forward
the information to the
CMS.
1.
Stop the SNMP daemon
%/sbin/init.d/SnmpMaster stop
2.
Edit
/etc/
sn
mpd.conf file
and add an appropriate
get
-
community
-
name
pertaining to the CMS
3.
Start the SNMP daemon:
%/sbin/init.d/SnmpMaster start
DMI
–
Add the DNS name of the C
MS to the dmiMachines file.
1.
Stop the DMI daemon:
%/sbin/init.d/Dmisp stop