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Monitoring Sun Servers in an HP SIM Environment

Servers supported:

▪ Sun Fire x64 Servers

▪ Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers

A complete, current list of supported Sun servers, service processors, and service processor firmware is available at the following web site: http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/tools.jsp Please consult this web site before configuring HP SIM to work with Sun servers. .

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Monitoring Sun Servers in an HP SIM Environment ii

Contents

Introduction 1 Categories of Sun Servers 1 HP SIM and Sun MIBs 2

Working with Sun MIBs 2 Obtaining Sun MIBs 4

Levels of Integration with HP SIM 5 This Manual 6 Requirements 6

Monitored Devices 6 HP SIM Management Server 7

Configuring Sun Devices to be Monitored by HP SIM 8 Configuring Sun Servers to be Monitored by HP SIM (Operating System Integration) 8

Configuring SNMP on Sun Fire x64 Servers Running Windows 8 Configuring ILOM and Embedded LOM Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM 10

Configuring Sun ILOM 1.1 Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM 11 Configuring Sun ILOM 2.0 Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM 14 Configuring Sun Embedded LOM Version 2.91 Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM 18 Configuring Sun Embedded LOM Version 4.x Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM 21

Configuring HP SIM to Discover and Monitor Sun Devices 25 Configuring HP SIM to Discover and Monitor Sun Servers 25 Configuring HP SIM to Discover and Monitor Sun Service Processors (Service Processor Integration) 27

Configuring Proper SNMP Strings 28 Compiling and Registering Sun MIBs 28 Defining a SUN ILOM Product Model for ILOM 30 Defining a SUN ELOM Product Model 36

Discovering Sun Devices 45 Discovering Sun Devices Automatically 45

Monitoring Sun Servers in an HP SIM Environment iii

Discovering Sun Devices Manually 45 Verifying Overall Configuration 47

Verifying Successful Configuration for HP SIM 47 Verifying Configuration Manually 48 Verifying Configuration Remotely Using ALOM 48 Verifying Configuration Remotely Using IPMItool 49 Verifying Configuration Remotely Using psradm 51

Monitoring Sun Devices in HP SIM 53 HP SIM Views on Sun Servers (Operating System Level Integration) 53

Server Identity Information 54 Tools & Links to Device Resources 54 Server Events Information 54

WBEM Views on Sun Fire x64 Servers (Operating System Level Integration) 55 Server Identity Information 56 Server Status Information 57 Server Configuration Information 58

HP SIM Views on Sun Service Processors (Service Processor Level Integration) 59 Service Processor Identity Information 59 Tools and Links to Service Processor Resources 59 Service Processor Events Information 63

Release Notes 65 SNMP MIB Compilation in HP SIM 65

Sun MIBs 66 What’s New? 67

Server and Firmware Support 67 Improved SNMP Sensor Reporting 67

Index 68

Monitoring Sun Servers in an HP SIM Environment iv

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

HP Systems Insight Manager (hereafter HP SIM) is an enterprise management application that is built primarily for managing HP ProLiant, HP Integrity, and HP 9000 servers running the Microsoft® Windows®, Linux®, and HP-UX operating systems. Although designed primarily to support HP servers, HP SIM does support non-HP devices via industry-standard protocols such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), and secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS).

The configurations discussed in this manual have been tested with HP SIM Release 5.0 and with the Sun servers listed in the Supported Servers section of this chapter. The servers tested were running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003.

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Categories of Sun Servers The Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper is one of several Sun ISV System Management solutions that provide Sun-specific resources for monitoring Sun servers in enterprise or workgroup data centers.

All the Sun servers supported by these integration packs fall into four categories differentiated by architecture (x64 or SPARC) and by service processor type (ALOM, ILOM, or Embedded LOM). The integration pack that you are installing or the configuration that you are implementing may not support all categories of servers, so consult the following website to verify that a particular server in one of these categories is supported by the Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper: http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/tools.jsp

Category Supported Description Examples

x64 Servers with ILOM

Yes x64 servers and blade server modules with the Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor

Hereafter referenced as x64/ILOM servers.

These servers are monitored at the service processor level.

Sun Fire X4100 M2 Sun Fire X4600 M2 Sun Blade X6220 Server Module Sun Blade X8440 Server Module

SPARC Servers with ILOM

Yes SPARC Solaris servers and blade server modules with the Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220

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http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/tools.jsp

Category Supported Description Examples

Hereafter referenced as SPARC/ILOM servers.

For most integrations or configurations, SPARC/ILOM servers can be monitored at either the service processor level or at the operating system level via the Sun SNMP Management Agent for Sun Fire and Netra Systems. The Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper does not support this Sun SNMP Management Agent for Sun Fire and Netra Systems.

Sun Blade T6320 Server Module

x64 Servers with Embedded LOM

Yes x64 servers and blade server modules with the Embedded Lights Out Manager (Embedded LOM) service processor

Hereafter referenced as x64/EmbeddedLOM servers.

These servers are monitored at the service processor level.

Sun Fire X2100 M2 Sun Fire X2200 M2

SPARC Servers with ALOM

No SPARC Solaris servers with the Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) service processor

Hereafter referenced as SPARC/ALOM servers.

These servers are monitored at the operating system level via the Sun™ SNMP Management Agent for Sun Fire™ and Netra™ Systems.

Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 Sun Blade T6300 Server Module

The matrix of servers and service processors supported by Sun integration packs is expanding dynamically. A complete, current list of supported Sun servers, service processors, and service processor firmware is available at the following web site: http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/tools.jsp Please consult this web site before performing installation and/or configuration of the Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper.

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HP SIM and Sun MIBs Before you proceed with this configuration, it is important to understand how HP SIM works with Sun system management MIBs.

Working with Sun MIBs

The Sun offers two SNMP management mibs:

▪ SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib

▪ SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib



ILOM 1.1 and EmbeddedLOM service processors support the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib. With ILOM 2.0 service processors, you can choose to configure ILOM to send PETs from the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib, traps from the SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib, or from both simultaneously. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

▪ SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib: The events from this mib do not show the name of the component or sensor that is generating the event.

▪ SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib: The events from this mib display the exact name of the sensor in the alert, but are all categorized as informational (although severity state of the component appears in one of the varbind for threshold events).

The same event generated by the SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib provides significantly more detail.


The following screen shot illustrates what ILOM 2.0 events look like in the Event browser when both ILOM is configured to send both SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib and SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib events.

Obtaining Sun MIBs

Before you can compile Sun mibs in HP SIM, you must download them from the following web site:




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Levels of Integration with HP SIM Each Sun server presents itself to a management application such as HP SIM as two devices with similar services that are monitored separately. The operating system installed on the server offers services (SNMP and WBEM) that can be integrated with HP SIM at one level while the embedded service processor on the Sun server presents itself as a separate device.

Installed Operating Systems:- Windows - Linux - Solaris

Embedded Service Processor:- Integrated Lights Out Manager- Embedded Lights Out Manager

Systems InsightManagerService Processor

Level Integration

Operating SystemLevel Integration

You can configure HP SIM and your Sun servers to integrate at either the operating system level, at the service processor level, or at both levels. The tasks that you must perform to achieve integration depend on which level or levels of integration you want.

Level of Integration Integration Tasks to Perform …

Discover and classify the monitored servers.

Display system properties extracted through SNMP and WBEM (when supported by the host OS).

Operating System

Configure a server to send OS-level SNMP traps.

Discover and classify the service processor.

Display system properties extracted through SNMP.

Configure a service processor to send Platform Event Traps (PETs) or traps defined in SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB to HP SIM.

X64 Service Processor

Compile SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib and/or SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib on the HPSIM server to be able to decode PETs and SNMP hardware traps.

Each level of integration operates independently.

Once you have configured HP SIM and your Sun devices (servers or service processors), HP SIM can extract information from those devices. The following screen shot illustrates the system information that HP SIM has extracted from a Sun Fire X4200 server.


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This Manual This manual contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1 “Introduction”

Chapter 2 “Configuring Sun Devices to be Monitored by HP SIM”

Chapter 3 “Configuring HP SIM to Discover and Monitor Sun Devices”

Chapter 4 “Discovering Sun Devices”

Chapter 5 “Verifying Overall Configuration”

Chapter 6 “Monitoring Sun Devices in HP SIM”

This manual is intended for experienced HP SIM administrators, field sales representatives, and support engineers.

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Requirements The monitored devices and the HP SIM server software have different software requirements.

Monitored Devices

Monitored devices (servers and service processors) must have the following software installed and configured properly.


Device Software Requirement

Consult the system documentation for your Sun server for information about operating system support.

SNMP service installed and running

Sun Servers

WBEM service installed and running (wherever supported by the operating system)

Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) firmware Sun Service Processors

Sun Embedded Lights Out Manager (ELOM) firmware

HP SIM Management Server

Integration between HP SIM and Sun servers has been tested with version 5.0 of the HP SIM software. Earlier versions of the HP SIM software will probably work as well.


CHAPTER 2

Configuring Sun Devices to be Monitored by HP SIM

This chapter describes how to configure your Sun devices (servers and service processors) to be discovered and monitored by HP SIM.

HP SIM uses SNMP to discover and communicate with monitored nodes and uses other protocols such as WBEM (where supported by a host operating system) to extract and to display asset information for Sun servers. To be discovered and monitored properly, the following tasks must be performed on the server and service processor:

■ Configure SNMP on all Sun servers.

■ Configure WBEM settings on each Sun Fire x64 server.

■ Configure SNMP settings on each Sun service processor.

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Configuring Sun Servers to be Monitored by HP SIM (Operating System Integration) For HP SIM to use SNMP and WBEM (x64 Windows servers only) to discover and monitor Sun servers, those services need to be enabled and configured on your Sun servers.

Note: Before you can configure SNMP and WBEM services, they must be installed on your HP SIM server. For more information about installing and configuring SNMP, SNMP v1 and v2 agents, and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), refer to the technical documentation at http://www.microsoft.com.

The following example is applicable only to Sun Fire x64 servers hosting the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Refer to your Linux or Solaris operating system documentation for equivalent instructions.

Configuring SNMP on Sun Fire x64 Servers Running Windows

To configure SNMP on your Sun Fire x64 servers running Windows Server 2003 on a monitored node, do the following:

1. Choose Start – Settings - Control Panel - Administrative Tools – Services- SNMP Service.

Windows displays the SNMP Service Properties dialog box.

2. Click the Traps tab.


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3. Click the Add button.

4. Enter the host name or IP address of the HP SIM server.

Note: In the following screen shot, the trap destination is configured to 129.148.97.169.

5. Click the Add button to submit the changes.

6. Click the Security tab.

7. Update the following fields in the SNMP Services Properties dialog box.

• Add the appropriate community string to the list displayed.

Note: Select READ ONLY unless otherwise required. The read-only (RO) setting permits HP SIM only to read SNMP mib values and prevents it from modifying any mib values. The configured string should match at least one of the strings that is configured on the HP SIM server.

• Click Add to submit the entered community string.

• Check the Accept SNMP packets from any host box.

Note: If entering this setting poses a security issue at your site, check the Accept SNMP packets from these hosts box and enter the host name or IP address of the HP SIM server.


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Configuring ILOM and Embedded LOM Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM For a SPARC/ILOM, x64/ILOM, or x64/EmbeddedLOM service processor to be monitored by HP SIM, you must configure SNMP on it.

A complete, current list of supported Sun servers, service processors, and service processor firmware is available at the following web site: http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/tools.jsp Please consult this web site before deploying the Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper.

Sun Server Configuration Tasks

SPARC/ILOM and x64/ILOM Configure SNMP on your ILOM service processor

Configure SNMP on your Embedded LOM service processor running firmware Version 2.91

x64/EmbeddedLOM

Configure SNMP on your Embedded LOM service processor running firmware Version 4.x



Configuring Sun ILOM 1.1 Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM

To configure SNMP protocol settings on your Sun ILOM 1.1 service processor, do the following:

1. Launch the web GUI (ILOM) on the service processor to be configured and managed.

2. Log in to the ILOM graphical interface as root.

3. Click Configuration – System Management Access – SNMP to display the SNMP configuration screen.

4. Verify the following settings.

Setting Value(s)

Port 161 (default)

Set Requests Optional.

v1 Protocol Checked.


Setting Value(s)

v2c Protocol v3 Protocol

Optional.

5. Click the Add button under the SNMP Communities section of the page to open a dialog box for entering SNMP community strings.

6. Enter the appropriate community string.

Note: At least one of the community strings with at least read-only (ro) permissions should match one of the configured community strings in the HP SIM server.

7. Click the Save button to submit the changes.

8. Click the Configuration – Alert Management tab.


9. Click one of the entries marked containing the value 0.0.0.0 under the

Destination IP Address column.

10. Choose Edit from the Actions drop-down box.

11. Verify the following configuration settings.


Field Value

IP Address: The IP address of the server on which HP SIM is installed

Level: Informational

12. Click the Save button to submit the change.

Tip: Verify that the information that you just entered in the dialog box appears in the updated Alert Management table.

Your Sun ILOM 1.1 service processor is now configured to send IPMI PETs to all trap destinations.

Configuring Sun ILOM 2.0 Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM

To configure SNMP protocol settings on your Sun ILOM 2.0 service processor, do the following:

1. Launch the web GUI (ILOM) on the service processor to be configured and monitored.

2. Log in to the ILOM graphical interface as root.

3. Click Configuration – System Management Access – SNMP to display the SNMP configuration screen.


4. Verify the following settings.

Setting Value(s)

Port 161 (default)

Set Requests Optional.

v1 Protocol Checked.

v2c Protocol v3 Protocol

Optional.

5. Click the Save button to submit the changes.

6. Click the Configuration - Alert Management tab to display the Alert Settings screen.


7. Click one of checkboxes for an entry that has no value for the Destination

Summary field.

8. Click the Actions drop-down box and choose Edit.

ILOM 2.0 displays the following screen.


9. Set (or verify) the following configuration settings.

Field Value

Level: Minor (to view the maximum number of traps at all severity levels)

Type: SNMP Trap (for the SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB)

Note: Although ILOM 2.0 continues to support the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB MIB, Sun strongly recommends configuring your service processors to use the more robust SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB MIB.

Note: See “Working with Sun MIBs” in Chapter 1 for more information about Sun service processor MIBs and HP SIM.

IP Address: IP_address_of_destination_server

SNMP Version: v1, v2c, or v3 (if supported) for your management configuration

Note: Check v1 for the Sun-HPSIM configuration.

Community Name: public Note: At least one of the community strings with at least read-only (ro) permissions must match one of the


Field Value

community strings configured in the Element Manager.

10. Click the Save button to submit the change.

Tip: Verify that the information that you just entered in the dialog box appears in the updated Alert Management table.

Your Sun ILOM 2.0 service processor is now configured to send SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB SNMP traps or IPMI PETs to all trap destinations.

Configuring Sun Embedded LOM Version 2.91 Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM

To configure SNMP protocol settings on an Embedded LOM service processor, do the following:

1. Launch the Embedded LOM service processor web GUI (Server Management) on the service processor to be configured and managed.

2. Log in to the Server Management application as root.


3. Click Control – Platform Event Filter in the menu pane.

The Embedded LOM GUI displays the Platform Event Filter form.


4. Verify or set the following settings:

Setting name Setting value

PEF Global Control Enable PEF is checked.

IP Address IP_address of the HP SIM management server, for example 129.148.97.209

MAC Address Mac_address of the HP SIM management server, for example 00-13-72-5A-A4-0E

5. Scroll down to the next section of the form.

6. Set the options appropriate for your environment.

Note: The checkbox labeled Enable Send Alert Action must be checked.

7. Click the Submit button to apply the settings.

8. Click SNMP - SNMP Settings in the menu pane.

9. Verify or enter the following settings:



Port 161 (the default)

v1 Protocol Checked

v2 Protocol Optional



Your Embedded LOM service processor is now configured to send IPMI PETs to all trap destinations listed.

Configuring Sun Embedded LOM Version 4.x Service Processors to be Monitored by HP SIM

To configure SNMP protocol settings on an Embedded LOM Version 4.x service processor, do the following:

1. Launch the Embedded LOM service processor web GUI (Server Management) on the service processor to be configured and managed.

2. Log in to the Server Management application as root.


3. Click Configuration - Platform Event Filter in the tabbed interface.

The Embedded LOM GUI displays the Platform Event Filter form.

4. Verify or set the following settings:


PEF Global Control Enable PEF is checked.



IP Address IP_address of the server hosting HP SIM, for example 129.148.97.117

MAC Address Mac_address of the server hosting HP SIM, for example 00-03-BA-F1-36-D8

5. Scroll down to the next section of the form.

6. Set the options appropriate for your environment.

Note: The checkbox labeled Enable Send Alert Action must be checked.


8. Click Configuration - SNMP - SNMP Settings in the tabbed interface.

9. Verify or enter the following settings:


Port 161 (the default)



v1 Protocol Checked

v2c Protocol Optional



Your Embedded LOM Version 4.x service processor is now configured to send IPMI PETs to all trap destinations listed.


CHAPTER 3

Configuring HP SIM to Discover and Monitor Sun Devices

This chapter describes how to configure HP SIM to discover and monitor Sun devices (servers and service processors) at both the operating system and service processor levels of integration.

During the discovery process, HP SIM uses primarily SNMP and WBEM protocols to extract system information from monitored devices and to classify those devices (servers or service processors) under the appropriate category. HP SIM uses the SNMP protocol to discover and identity Sun servers and the WBEM protocol to retrieve asset inventory details. To configure HP SIM for SNMP, you must provide proper SNMP community strings.

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Configuring HP SIM to Discover and Monitor Sun Servers For HP SIM to use SNMP and WBEM to discover and monitor Sun servers, you need to configure SNMP and WBEM protocol settings in HP SIM.

To configure SNMP and WBEM protocol settings on your HP SIM server, do the following:

1. Launch HP SIM.

2. Log in to HP SIM as Administrator.

3. Modify protocol settings at the global or system level.

• To modify product settings at the global level (settings to be applied to all monitored servers), choose Options – Protocol Settings – Global Protocol Settings.

• To modify product settings at the individual system level (settings to be applied to one monitored server), choose Options – Protocol Settings – System Protocol Settings.

4. Modify SNMP protocol settings in the SNMP settings section of the page.

• Check the Enable SNMP box.

• Add appropriate SNMP community strings to the displayed list of community strings.

Note: At least one of the community strings must match one of the community strings on the monitored server or service processor.


5. Modify WBEM protocol settings in the Default WBEM settings section of

the page.

• Check the Enable WBEM box.

• Enter the username and password of the Sun server that you want HP SIM to discover and monitor.

Note: These settings are applicable only to devices that support WBEM.


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Configuring HP SIM to Discover and Monitor Sun Service Processors (Service Processor Integration) For HP SIM to discover, classify, and receive alerts from a Sun x64/ILOM, SPARC/ILOM, or x64/ELOM service processor, you need to perform the following tasks:

Devices to be Integrated Task

All Sun Servers Configure proper SNMP strings on HP SIM. Note: Perform this step here only if you have not done so in the previous section.

Sun x64/ILOM 1.1 Service Processors

Compile and register the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib file to decode and display platform event traps (hereafter PETs).

Define an HP SIM Product Model “SUN ILOM” for your Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor.

Sun x64/ILOM 2.0 and SPARC/ILOM Service Processors

Compile and register SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib the and/or SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib file to decode and display traps.

Define an HP SIM Product Model “SUN ILOM” for your Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor.

Sun x64/EmbeddedLOM Compile and register the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib file to decode and


Devices to be Integrated Task

Service Processors display platform event traps.

Define an HP SIM Product Model “SUN ELOM 2.91” for your Embedded LOM service processor.

The following sections document each of these tasks.

Configuring Proper SNMP Strings

If you have not done so, complete Step 4 in “Configuring HP SIM to Discover and Monitor Sun Servers.”

Compiling and Registering Sun MIBs

The service processor in your Sun x64/ILOM, SPARC/ILOM, or x64/EmbeddedLOM server supports both the SNMP protocol and the IPMI protocol. For the traps sent by the service processor to be properly decoded by HP SIM, you must compile and register on HP SIM either the corresponding SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib and/or the SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib.

Service Processor Trap Type Sun MIB to be Compiled

x64/ILOM 1.1 IPMI Platform Event Traps (PETs)

SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib

x64/ILOM 2.0 IPMI Platform Event Traps (PETs) or Hardware Traps

SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib or SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib

SPARC/ILOM IPMI Platform Event Traps (PETs) or Hardware Traps

SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib or SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib

x64/EmbeddedLOM IPMI Platform Event Traps (PETs)

SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib

All PET traps are sent as SNMP v1 traps with the following format.

Enterprise OID = iso(1).org(3).dod(6).internet(1).private(4).enterprises(1). wired_for_management(3183).PET(1).version(1)

Agent-addr Network Address

Generic-trap EnterpriseSpecific (6)

Specific-trap The field is of type “INTEGER”. This is a decimal version of a hex string that contains information like Event Sensor Type, Event Type, and Event Offset.

Time-stamp Time elapsed between last (re) initialization of the network entity and the generation of the trap


Variable-bindings (varbind)

A single octet-string, varying between 47 to 110 octets which holds bulk of information regarding sensor, severity, etc.

For specific procedures about integrating new mibs into HP SIM, see the HP SIM administration documentation.

To compile and register the appropriate Sun mib(s) for HP SIM, do the following:

1. Copy the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib and/or SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib file into the following directory:

\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\mibs

2. Launch a command window.

3. Change the working directory to the following:


4. Execute, as appropriate, the following command(s) in the Command Window.

mcompile SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib

mcompile SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib

If the mib successfully compiles, it should return the message “Mib Compilation completed successfully”. Successful compilation of the mib should also create a files called SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.cfg or SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.cfg file in the following directory:


5. Execute, as appropriate, the following command(s):

mxmib -a SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.cfg

mxmib -a SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.cfg

This command should register the mib and return the message “COMMAND COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY”. The following screen shot illustrates the execution of Step 4 and Step 5.

The following screen shot depicts a compilation of the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib.


The following screen shot depicts a compilation of the SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib.

The SUN mibs are now compiled and registered for HP SIM to decode IPMI PETs and/or hardware traps.

Defining a SUN ILOM Product Model for ILOM

To create a SUN ILOM product model in HP SIM, do the following:

1. Launch HP SIM.

2. Log in as HP SIM Administrator.


3. Select Options - Manage System Types.

HP SIM displays the Manage System Types page.

4. Click the New button.

HP SIM expands the Manage System Types page to display a New rule section.


You can enter values here manually or you can use values retrieved from the device. Since object identifiers (OIDs) are long strings of numbers, there is a chance of typographical errors. To avoid this, consider retrieving values from the device. This also serves to confirm the working of SNMP communication between HP SIM and the device.

5. Click the Retrieve from system button next to System object identifier field.

HP SIM expands the Manage System Types page to display a new Retrieve from system section.

Note: The Target hostname or IP address described here refers to the hostname or IP address of the server’s service processor, not the hostname or IP address of the server host operating system.


6. Update the Community string and Target hostname or IP address fields.

• Enter the appropriate default community string for the target service processor whose IP address you specify in the next field. The default Community string used in HP SIM is public.

• Enter the IP address or hostname of a target service processor that can communicate with HP SIM.

7. Click the Get response button.

HP SIM queries the target device to determine its SNMP data type and response value.


Depending on which type of Sun server or blade module you are querying here, you will see OBJECTIDENTIFIER return a value starting with 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.200.

8. Click the OK button to accept these retrieved values.

HP SIM collapses the Manage System Types page and displays a retrieved value in the System object identifier field.

9. Evaluate the value in the System object identifier field.

System object identifier value Action

1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.200 Accept the value

1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.200.1.2 (or other values with digits trailing .200)

Trim the value to 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.200

10. In the Compare rule drop-down box, select the value starts with.

11. Click OK to accept these retrieved values.

HP SIM enters these values in fields of the New rule section of the Manage System Types page.

12. Specify or verify the following values in this section.

• Select Management Processor in the System type drop-down box.


• Select None in the Subtype drop-down box.

• Enter SUN ILOM in the Product Model text box.

• Leave the Custom management page field empty.

13. Click the OK button to complete the procedure.

HP SIM collapses the Manage System Types page and displays the name of the new product model in the list of product models.

To test whether the new Product Model definition works properly, identify the IP address of an ILOM service processor that has not been discovered by HP SIM and perform a manual discovery of that device. If the new Product Model definition is configured properly, that newly discovered device should appear in the list of discovered systems under the category SUN ILOM.


Defining a SUN ELOM Product Model

x64/EmbeddedLOM service processors use different System Object Identifiers, so you must define separate product models in HP SIM, one for version 2.91 and one for the new versions. In the following procedure, we’ll differentiate these types of x64/embeddedLOM servers as Sun ELOM 2.91 and Sun ELOM Other.

To determine the version of the ELOM firmware installed on the service processor of a monitored node, log in to the ELOM command-line interface and note the version number that is displayed by ELOM.

The product models need to be defined according to the following rules.

ELOM Model ELOM Version Category Evaluation …

System Object Identifier Matches 1.3.6.1.4.1.42. 2.91 (X2100-M2 /X2200-M2)

2.91

System Description (SysDescr)

Matches ServiceProcessor.

Other All others System Object Identifier Starts with 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.208

To create this Sun-specific product model in HP SIM, do the following:

1. Launch HP SIM.

2. Log in as HP SIM Administrator.

3. Select Options - Manage System Types.

HP SIM displays the Manage System Types page.


4. Click the New button.

HP SIM expands the Manage System Types page to display a New rule section.


You can enter values here manually or you can use values retrieved from the device. Since object identifiers (OIDs) are long strings of numbers, there is a chance of typographical errors. To avoid this, consider retrieving values from the device. This also serves to confirm the working of SNMP communication between HP SIM and the device.

5. Click the Retrieve from system button next to System object identifier field.

HP SIM expands the Manage System Types page to display a new Retrieve from system section.


6. Update the Community string and Target hostname or IP address fields.

• Enter the appropriate default community string for the target service processor whose IP address you specify in the next field. The default Community string used in HP SIM is public.

• Enter the IP address or hostname of a target service processor that can communicate with HP SIM. In the following example, the IP address is 129.148.97.216.


7. Click the Get response button.



ELOM 2.91 and ELOM Other service processors return different System Object Identifier values.

ELOM Model ELOM Version System Object Identifier

2.91 2.91 1.3.6.1.4.1.42

Other All others 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.208

In the screen shot above, the System Object Identifier value starting with 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.208, identifying it as an ELOM Other type server with firmware that is not Version 2.91.

Note: All ELOM Other service processors return System Object Identifiers with digits after 208.

8. Click the OK button to accept these retrieved values.

HP SIM collapses the Manage System Types page and displays the retrieved value starting with 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.208 in the System object identifier field at the top of the page.

Note: When defining a System Object Identifier, trim the value in the System

object identifier box to 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.208 if it returns addition numbers at the end.

9. In the Compare rule drop-down box, set the appropriate rule (match or starts with) for your ELOM 2.91 or ELOM Other service processor.


ELOM Model ELOM Version Compare rule

2.91 2.91 match 1.3.6.1.4.1.42

Other All others starts with 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.208

Note: Steps 10 – 14 are not required for defining a product model for an ELOM Other service processor. Skip to Step 15 if you are defining a product model for an ELOM Other service processor.

10. [ELOM 2.91] Click the Retrieve from MIB button.

HP SIM expands the Manage System Types page to display a section titled Retrieve from MIB.

11. [ELOM 2.91 only] Specify the following values in the MIB definition file

name and MIB variable name fields.

Field name Value

MIB definition file name rfc1213.mib

MIB variable name fields sysDescr

12. [ELOM 2.91 only] Click OK to accept these changes.

HP SIM collapses the Manage System Types page and displays the results of the MIB inquiry.


13. [ELOM 2.91 only] Click the Retrieve from system button.

HP SIM expands the page to display the Retrieve from system section.

14. [ELOM 2.91 only] Click the Get response button.




15. [ELOM 2.91 only] Click OK to accept these retrieved values.

HP SIM enters these values in fields of the New rule section of the Manage System Types page.

16. [ELOM 2.91 only] In the Compare rule drop-down box, set the value to match.

17. Specify or verify the following values in this section.

Field name Value

System type Management Processor

Subtype None

SUN ELOM 2.91

or …

Product model

SUN ELOM Other

Custom management page

[Blank]

18. Click the OK button to complete the procedure.

HP SIM collapses the Manage System Types page and displays the name of the new product model in the list of product models.


The following screen shots depict completed product definitions for SUN ELOM 2.91 and SUN ELOM Other.


CHAPTER 4

Discovering Sun Devices

Once you properly configure the HP SIM server and the monitored Sun devices (servers or service processors), HP SIM is able to discover your Sun servers and service processors.

There are two general methods for HP SIM to discover your Sun servers or service processors: automatic discovery or manual discovery.

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Discovering Sun Devices Automatically By default, HP SIM server software is not configured to discover devices automatically. Consult the HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide for detailed information about configuring HP SIM to perform automatic discovery in one of the following ways:

■ HP SIM can be configured to poll a list of IP addresses (or a range of IP addresses) at some predetermined regular intervals and to discover the devices that respond.

■ HP SIM can be configured to discover a new server or service processor when HP SIM receives a trap from an undiscovered server or service processor.

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Discovering Sun Devices Manually You can also discover a Sun server or service processor manually. To discover a device manually, do the following:

1. Launch HP SIM and log in as Administrator.

2. Select Options - Discovery.

HP SIM displays the Discovery page.

3. Click the Manual tab to display the System Information page.


4. Select the IP address radio button and enter the IP address of your Sun

server.

5. Click the Add System button to add the system to the database or click More Settings to enter additional information.

HP SIM pings the IP address or hostname to discover the device.

If discovery is successful, HP SIM displays the newly discovered device (server or service processor) in its various lists of monitored devices.


CHAPTER 5

Verifying Overall Configuration

Once you properly configured both the HP SIM server and the monitored Sun devices, you can verify that the overall configuration is working properly.

Note: Currently the Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper does not support OS-level monitoring of SPARC/ILOM or SPARC/ALOM servers.

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Verifying Successful Configuration for HP SIM To the extent that the Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper employs a variety of system management technologies to monitor different types of Sun servers, there is no one procedure that exercises every interface on each monitored system in order to verify that the entire integration has been installed and configured properly. If you are physically located with your monitored systems, you could always manually remove and re-insert a non-critical component on one Sun server after another. See the section “Verifying Configuration Manually” below for more information on manual verification. This manual procedure becomes impractical at large installations and impossible at remote locations. Performing remote verification is more convenient, but requires different procedures for OS-level or SP-level integrations and for different types of Sun servers (x64 or SPARC).

To determine which remote procedures are appropriate for your test plan and for the types of Sun servers supported by your management application, consult the following table.

CPU Type SP Type OS-level Procedure(s) SP-level Procedure(s)

ILOM Not supported See “Verifying Configuration Remotely Using IPMItool”

x64

Embedded LOM Not supported See “Verifying Configuration Remotely Using IPMItool”

SPARC ILOM See “Verifying Configuration Remotely Using psradm”

Note: Currently the Sun-HPSIM configuration discussed in this publication does not support OS-level monitoring of SPARC/ILOM

See “Verifying Configuration Remotely Using IPMItool”


CPU Type SP Type OS-level Procedure(s) SP-level Procedure(s)

or SPARC/ALOM servers.

ALOM See “Verifying Configuration Remotely Using ALOM”

Note: Currently the Sun-HPSIM configuration discussed in this publication does not support OS-level monitoring of SPARC/ILOM or SPARC/ALOM servers.

Not supported

The following sections describe how to perform each of these procedures.

Verifying Configuration Manually

If you are located physically near one or more of your Sun servers, you can always verify configuration by generating a physical event. The most reliable way to accomplish this is to remove and re-insert a non-critical component.

To test your configuration manually, do the following:

1. Locate the Sun server or blade module in your data center.

2. Identify a component on that system that is non-critical and hot-pluggable (for example, a redundant power supply or fan tray).

Note: Be certain that removal and re-insertion of this component will not affect the normal and routine operation of the server. Verify that the redundant component is, in fact, not critical to the current state of the system.

3. Remove that non-critical component.

Note: Be certain to follow all required software and firmware procedures required for the safe removal of any hot-pluggable component. Consult the Sun manual or online information system that ships with your Sun server for specific procedures related to removing that hot-pluggable component.

4. After an appropriate amount of time, re-insert the non-critical component.

5. In the message or event console of your management package, verify that removing/re-inserting the non-critical component has generated one or more traps with the appropriate event summary and severity.

If you do not see these traps in the console, review this manual for required configuration steps or consult the troubleshooting section of this manual.

Verifying Configuration Remotely Using ALOM

To verify that a remote ALOM-based SPARC Solaris system is configured correctly, do the following:

1. Identify the name and/or IP address of the ALOM-based SPARC Solaris server that you want to test.

2. Log in to the ALOM CMT command shell on that remote system via an Ethernet or serial connection.


3. Enter the following command to determine the current state of the system locator LED. sc> showlocator

ALOM returns one of the following messages:

• Locator led is ON

• Locator led is OFF

The following example assumes that the locator LED is currently OFF.

4. Enter the following command to turn the locator LED on. sc> setlocator on

5. In the message or event console of your management package, verify that it has received an event from ALOM indicating that the locator LED is on.

6. Enter the following command to restore the locator LED to off. sc> setlocator off

7. (Optional) In the message or event console of your management package, verify that it has received an event from ALOM indicating that the locator LED is off.

If you do not see these messages in the console, review this manual for required configuration steps or consult the troubleshooting section of this manual.

Verifying Configuration Remotely Using IPMItool

Recent Sun servers support either an Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor or an Embedded LOM service processor. You can communicate with these ILOM and Embedded LOM service processors via their IPMI interfaces to have them generate non-critical, simulated events. If HP SIM receives these non-critical, simulated events from ILOM or from Embedded LOM, it is configured properly for actual events.

IPMItool is an open-source utility for managing and configuring devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) version 1.5 and version 2.0 specifications. Versions of IPMItool are available for the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems.

Operating System IPMItool Distribution(s)

Solaris http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/

Many software resource CDs distributed with Sun servers.

Linux http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/


Windows http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/tools.jsp


To verify that your management program is configured to receive traps from a supported service processor, do the following:


http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/

http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/


1. Collect the following information about the remote service processor that you want to test.

Field Description

<SPname> The name or IP address of the service processor

Example: 192.168.1.1

<SPadminname> The administrator login name for the service processor

Example: root

<SPadminpassword> The administrator password for the service processor

Example: changeme

2. Open a command shell on the system that has IPMItool installed.

3. Enter the following IPMItool command to generate a list of all available sensors on that remote Sun server. # ipmitool -U <SPadminname> -P <SPadminpassword> \ -H <SPname> -v sdr list

For example, to get the list of available sensors on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server at IP address 192.168.1.1 with ILOM SP login/password root/changeme, you would enter the following command:

# ipmitool -U root -P changeme -H 192.168.1.1 –v sdr list

4. In the output from IPMItool, identify the Sensor ID name of a sensor that has at least one entry in the Assertions Enabled or Deassertions Enabled fields.

In the following example, IPMItool returns the following information about the sensor named /MB/T_AMB.

Sensor ID : /MB/T_AMB (0x9) Entity ID : 7.0 (System Board) Sensor Type (Analog) : Temperature . . .

Upper critical : 55.000 . . . Assertions Enabled : lnc- lcr- lnr- unc+ ucr+ unr+ Deassertions Enabled : lnc- lcr- lnr- unc+ ucr+ unr+

This sensor monitors ambient temperature on the motherboard of servers.

Note: Exercise caution in choosing a sensor to use for a simulated event. Simulating unrecoverably high or low temperature for some sensors may cause the server to shut down.

5. Enter the following IPMI command to generate a simulated event # ipmitool -U <SPadminname> -P <SPadminpassword> \ -H <SPname> event <sensorname> <option>

For example, to generate a simulated event for exceeding the upper critical (ucr) ambient temperature on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server at IP


address 192.168.1.1 with ILOM SP login/password root/changeme, you would enter the following command:

# ipmitool -U root -P changeme -H 192.168.1.1 \ event /MB/T_AMB ucr assert

In the command shell, IPMItool returns information like the following:

Finding sensor /MB/T_AMB … ok 0 | Pre-Init Time-stamp | Temperature /MB/T_AMB | \ Upper Critical going high | Reading 56 > Threshold \ 55 degrees C

6. In the message or event console of your management package, verify that it has received an event from ILOM or from Embedded LOM relevant to the sensor that you specified in your IPMItool command.


7. (Recommended) Clear the simulated event with the following syntax:

# ipmitool -U <SPadminname> -P <SPadminpassword> \ -H <SPname> event <sensorname> <option>

To clear (deassert) the simulated event in the previous example, enter the following command:

# ipmitool -U root -P changeme -H 192.168.1.1 \ event /MB/T_AMB ucr deassert


Verifying Configuration Remotely Using psradm

The Solaris utility psradm(1M) performs configuration on multiprocessor CPUs. When you use psradm to disable or to re-enable a CPU core, it generates a trap that should appear in the HP SIM event console. This procedure is appropriate if you are verifying configuration for a Sun SPARC Enterprise server supporting the ILOM service processor such as the SPARC Enterprise T5120 or T5220 server.

To use psradm to generate a trap for one of these supported systems, do the following:

1. Identify the name and/or IP address of the server that you want to test.

2. Log in to that server as root or with administrator privileges.

3. Enter the following command to disable a specific CPU core on that remote server. # psradm -f <CPU_Core_ID>

where <CPU_Core_ID> is the ID for one CPUcore. For example, to disable core 0 on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, you would enter the following command:

# psradm -f 0

The trap generated by the T5120 should appear in the HP SIM event console in a format like the following:

CH/MB/CMP0/P0/CPU Device has been removed

4. (Recommended) Enter the following command to re-enable that same CPU core on that remote server.


# psradm -n <CPU_Core_ID>



CHAPTER 5

Monitoring Sun Devices in HP SIM

Once you have configured the HP SIM server and the Sun devices (servers or service processors) to be monitored, HP SIM can discover your Sun devices and extract information about those devices using standard protocols such as SNMP or WBEM. HP SIM provides consistent views of information derived from two types of monitored devices:

Sun servers integrated with HP SIM at the operating system level

Sun servers integrated with HP SIM at the service processor level

Each of these views is discussed in subsequent sections of this chapter.

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HP SIM Views on Sun Servers (Operating System Level Integration) For every device that HP SIM discovers, it presents information about that system in a System Page. Each System Page has three tabs that allow you to view additional information about Identity, Tools & Links, and Alerts (Events).

To display the System Page for any monitored device, click the device in the left-hand pane of the HP SIM administrative console.


Server Identity Information

HP SIM displays information about the identity of the discovered device on the Identity page. Here is sample data in the Identity page for a discovered Sun Blade X8420 server module.

Tools & Links to Device Resources

In the Tools & Links page, HP SIM displays URL links to various web-launchable applications/tools on the monitored device. During discovery, HP SIM scans some predefined ports to check any HTTP/HTTPS servers listening on those particular ports. If the check is positive, it provides a link on Tools & Links page to launch that particular application/tool. Port numbers can be added to or deleted from the predefined list of ports. HTTP should be enabled in 'Global Protocol Settings' for the above functionality to work. Please refer to the HP manual HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide for detailed information about adding more port numbers to the predefined list.

Server Events Information

In the Events page, HP SIM displays alerts from the managed server. Currently HP SIM can only receive alerts in the form of SNMP traps. HP SIM also polls the monitored device at regular intervals and displays corresponding status alerts about the accessibility of the monitored device. The following screen shot depicts operating system level events received from a Sun Fire x64 server.


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WBEM Views on Sun Fire x64 Servers (Operating System Level Integration) HPSIM, through WBEM calls, can extract information from monitored servers that support WBEM. HP SIM categorizes and displays this extracted information in web page with three tabs: Identity, Status, and Configuration.

Note: WBEM views are available only for devices and operating systems that support the WBEM protocol.

To launch WBEM views for any device, do the following:

1. From the HP SIM administrative console, choose Tools – System Information – Properties.

2. Select the system for which you want HP SIM to display WBEM properties in a WBEM view.


3. Click the Run now button.

Server Identity Information

The following screen shot depicts server Identity information retrieved by HP SIM through WBEM for a Sun Blade X8420 server module.


Server Status Information

Similarly, WBEM displays information about the status of various components of a discovered server. The following screenshot depicts Status/Memory Utilization information about a discovered Sun server. To view more information about other subcategories, click the name of the subcategory in the left-hand column of the Status page. This page should display more information about the selected subcategory in the right-hand column.


Server Configuration Information

WBEM also displays information about the components that have been installed and configured on a particular server. The following screen shot depicts Configuration/Motherboard information about a discovered Sun Fire X4200 server. To view more information about other subcategories, click the name of the subcategory in the left-hand column of the Configuration page. This page should display more information about the selected subcategory in the right-hand column.


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HP SIM Views on Sun Service Processors (Service Processor Level Integration) Once you have defined in HP SIM a Product Model and System Type for Sun service processors, HP SIM can discover new service processors and display detailed information about them in the Identity, Tools & Links, and Events pages.

Service Processor Identity Information

HP SIM displays the following information about the discovered service processor (in this case ILOM) on the System page.

Note: HP links its Service Processor, which is called Integrated Lights-Out (iLO),

with the host of the Service Processor and vice versa. Similar association is not possible with Sun server and the ILOM service processor at this time.

Tools and Links to Service Processor Resources

In the Tools & Links page, HP SIM displays URL links to available service processor web servers provided its ports for HTTP and HTTPS are predefined in the HP SIM configuration file. The following two sections address how HP SIM provides Tools and Links integration with both the ILOM and the Embedded LOM service processors.

Integration with ILOM Service Processors

The ILOM web server link is available if the port used for HTTP or HTTPS is in the list of predefined ports in HP SIM's configuration file. The default HTTP port (80) and default HTTPS port (443) are already defined in the HP SIM configuration file.


In this particular example, the ILOM web server is listening on the default ports -- 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). HP SIM detects the web servers on these two ports and provides two links on Tools & Links page, the first for the HTTP port and the second for the HTTPS port.

By default, HP SIM displays “Web Server: Default Home Page” as the name of each link. If you want HP SIM to replace this default name with the actual name of the ILOM web server page, “Log In - Sun(TM) Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager,” you need to cause HP SIM to query the ILOM service processor web server. To instruct HP SIM to perform that query when it starts up, you must update the following configuration file in the root directory on your HP SIM host server:

\config\identification\additionalWsDisc.props

When HP SIM reads additionalWsDisc.props and sees an entry for a particular port, it polls the web server on that port, extracts its web page name, and uses that name when it constructs links to its home page in its own Tools & Links pages. For example, to instruct HP SIM to poll the ILOM web server on the default port 443 to derive its web page name, edit (or create) the entry for port 443 in the additionalWsDisc.props configuration file:

443=SUN_ILOM,iPages/i_login.asp,true,false, ,https

where SUN_ILOM is an arbitrary string.

Note: If the web server is configured to listen on a different port, please replace the port number 443 in the previous example with the port number on which the service processor web server is configured to listen.

After you save this modified configuration file, restart the HP SIM server. The new link name appears on the Tools & Links pages for all newly discovered Sun ILOM service processors. To apply this new link name to previously discovered ILOM service processors, select each of those devices and choose Options – Identify Systems.

If you have configured your ILOM service processor to use the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib, you will see PET-based events in the event console.


The detailed information about this PET-based event looks as follows.

If you configure your ILOM 2.0 service processor to use the SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib, you will see HW-based events in the event console.


The detailed information about this HW-based event looks as follows.

Note that the HW-based event provides significantly more information about the particular sensor or component on your Sun server.


Integration with Embedded LOM Service Processors

The Embedded LOM web server link is available if the port used for HTTP or HTTPS is in the list of predefined ports in HP SIM's configuration file. By default HTTP uses port 80 and HTTPS uses port 443 in the HP SIM configuration file.

In this particular example, the Embedded LOM web server is listening on the default ports -- 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). If HP SIM detects web servers on both of these ports, it provides two links on Tools & Links page, the first for the HTTP port and the second for the HTTPS port. Otherwise it provides one link.

Service Processor Events Information

In the Events page, HP SIM displays a short summary of the event, the severity of event, the IP address/hostname of the alert-generating device, and the time of the alert. By double-clicking the event or selecting 'open' in the right-click menu opens 'Event Details' of that particular event that shows additional details like description. The following screen shot depicts representative information in an Events page.

When you double-click an event in the list, HP SIM displays more detailed information about that event. The following screen shot depicts event details for an Embedded LOM service processor.


Automatic actions like emailing and paging can be configured for a particular event which triggers the specific actions when that particular alert happens.


APPENDIX A

Release Notes

SNMP MIB Compilation in HP SIM Because of a limitation of the HP SIM application, the single varbind of PET cannot be decoded. The Specific-trap value of a PET is dependent on Event Sensor Type, Event Type and Event Offset and is independent of Sensor. Since Specific-trap is independent of Sensor, the alerts that will be displayed in HP SIM convey the type of the event and do not convey information regarding the actual sensor.

For specific procedures about integrating new mibs into HP SIM, see the HP manual Compiling and Customizing SNMP MIBs with HP Systems Insight Manager.


APPENDIX B

Sun MIBs

Many Sun system management integration packages depend on the SNMP protocol and use one or more of the following Sun SNMP MIBs:

▪ SUN-PLATFORM-MIB: This MIB is used by Solaris-based servers to extend the ENTITY-MIB Physical Entity Table to represent new classes of component and the Logical Entity Table to represent high value platform and server objects. This MIB supplies the Sun™ SNMP Management Agent for Sun Fire™ and Netra™ Systems with traps. The operation of this MIB is described in the Sun publication Sun SNMP Management Agent Administration Guide for Sun Blade, Sun Fire and Netra Servers (819-7978).

Filename: SUN-PLATFORM-MIB.mib

▪ SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB: This MIB enables management platforms that are not IPMI compliant to partly decode standard IPMI Platform Event Traps (PETS) generated by the ILOM and Embedded LOM service processors.

Filename: SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB.mib

▪ SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB: This MIB supplements and enhances the SUN-ILOM-PET-MIB for ILOM 2.0 systems.

Filename: SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib

To view a summary of the entries in these MIBs or to download them, consult the following Sun web site:




APPENDIX C

What’s New?

The enhancements to the HP SIM configuration fall into two areas:

▪ Server and firmware support

▪ Improved SNMP Sensor Reporting

The following section addresses that area.

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Server and Firmware Support The Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper now supports the following Sun servers and updated Sun system management firmware.

Category Enhancements

New servers SPARC/ILOM Servers

x64/ILOM Servers

Updated firmware Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 2.0 Embedded LOM Version 4.x

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Improved SNMP Sensor Reporting The Sun-HPSIM configuration described in this whitepaper now supports a much-improved SNMP agent:

▪ SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB Mib: For Sun servers supporting ILOM 2.0, the SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB supplants the PET MIB in generating SNMP traps. The SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB provides more detailed information about sensors.


Index configuration

managed servers, 8 management server for managed servers, 25

device configuration Embedded LOM, 18, 21 Embedded LOM service processors, 18 Embedded LOM version 4.x service processors, 21 ILOM, 11 ILOM 2.0, 14 Sun service processors, 10

discovery automatic, 45 manual, 45

HP SIM configuration, 25 requirements, 7 server views (OS), 53 server views (WBEM), 55

service processor views, 59 integration levels, 5 introduction, 1 product models

ELOM, 36 release notes, 65 requirements

managed devices, 6 management server, 7

Sun MIBs, 66 compilation, 2, 28

supported servers, 1 verification

ALOM simulated events, 48 manual, 48 overview, 47 simulated IPMI events, 49


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