README - HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1
Configure or Repair Agent task
HP-UX 11.31 does not ship with smbclient, therefore, any Configure or Repair Agents task from an HP-UX
11.31 CMS to a Windows target fails until smbclient is installed on the CMS. A back up smbclient is located
under /opt/mx/bin/smbclient. Copy this to the opt/samba/bin/smbclient folder to execute the
Configure or Repair Agents task.
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To push an SSH key through CRA or mxagentconfig to a target system running Windows Vista, and
Windows 2008, HP recommends turning off the Windows Vista User Account Control.
Disable user account control on Windows 2008 systems to configure agents through CRA. CRA is not
supported on Windows Vista.
CRA is supported in Windows XP. However, if you receive a connection failed error in CRA, you might have
Windows XP SP2 or later installed. Windows XP SP2 disables admin share. You must enable admin share
by using the command net share admin$.
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When configuring a CRA task, limit the number of target servers to 100 or less so that the internally created
Windows command will not exceed the maximum Windows command line length.
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CRA tasks that combine Critical, Unknown, and Unmanaged targeted systems appear to hang at 0% but
will eventually complete.
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Container View
If the number of servers in the enclosure exceeds the number of available slots, then not all the servers will
be shown in HP SIM. This can happen when the enclosure contains at least one double dense blade (BL2x220c
or ProLiant xw2x220c Blade Workstation) and all the slots in the enclosure are populated with the servers.
A double dense blade contains 2 servers per blade: and A and a B server. Some of the cases where the
number of servers exceeds the available slots in the enclosure are:
C7000 containing 15 BL servers (single sided) and 1 Double dense server = 17 servers
C7000 containing 10 Double dense servers = 20 servers
Therefore with number of servers exceeding the number of available slots, the B side of each blade beyond
the 8th double dense blade or beyond the 16th blade will be missing from HP SIM. The servers can still be
discovered, but they will not be associated with the enclosure or will not be shown in Enclosure picture view
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If an HP ProLiant BL30p server blade is physically removed from its enclosure and another server blade is
inserted in its place, manually delete the BL30p server from HP SIM. Otherwise, the Rack or Enclosure picture
view might be displayed incorrectly.
The picture view of a rack that is empty and no longer contains any enclosures might display as a gray box
with no information. You can safely delete the rack system in this case.
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If the table view of a rack appears empty but the picture view has a rack diagram, re-run discovery. This
error can happen if you unplug the power supply and then plug it back in.
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If HP ProLiant BL e-Class blade servers or the HP bc1000 blade PC picture view is empty but the table view
displays all blades correctly, run identification on the Integrated Administrator management processor.
This happens when the Integrated Administrator is discovered before blades are discovered.
1. Select Options→Discovery→Identify Systems.
2. Select the ProLiant BL e-Class Integrated Administrator.
3. Click Run Now.
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