Monitoring HP ProLiant Hardware

To monitor the HP proliant series of servers, you would want to create any number of our HP Proliant sensors for these devices. Currently we have the following:

- SNMP HP ProLiant Logical Disk Sensor - SNMP HP ProLiant Memory Controller Sensor - SNMP HP ProLiant Network Interface Sensor - SNMP HP ProLiant Physical Disk Sensor - SNMP HP ProLiant System Health Sensor

These sensors need to have HP Insight Management Agents for Windows Server 2003/2008 installed on the target device, so it reports data via SNMP. Also, in order to receive SNMP data from RAID controllers you will additionally need HP Insight Management WBEM Providers.

With that said, this is an easy enough solution for those servers that you have that are running Windows but for the ESX servers, this may present an issue. Since the Insight manager would not run properly on a VM since it only has access to the "Virtual" hardware, you might want to try and install the HP ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi and see if that provides the same SNMP OIDs as the normal SIM OIDs.

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog/6-Simple-Steps-to-Monitoring-ESXi-with-Insight-Remote-Support/ba-p/100789#.UcgP1vkwfzw

We will be testing out the ESXi Offline Bundle this week or next and I'll post here whether or not it works with our sensors.

Hi

Thanks. I have got HP ProLiant System Health Sensor installed for most servers now without issue.

On these very same systems though some of them take the ProLiant Memory Sensor, some dont. However none of them take the Physical Disk Sensor?

I know everything is set up correctly, I have all the insight agents installed and WBEM providers.

With ESXi for now we have just used the WBEM Hardware (ESXi) and that seems to report on pretty much all the stuff we need.

On one of the servers that you are not able to create the Memory Sensors, can you run a walk with the SNMP tester to see what it's reporting for OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.6.2.14 and post it here?

Also for one of the servers that won't report on drive status, can you do a walk with the SNMP tester on OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.2.3.1.1 and post the results as well?

SNMP Tester

I'm not 100% on how to use the SNMP Tester but...

Local IP - Any Device IP - Is this the IP of the Probe? Port 161 SNMP V2C Community matches what I have set for this client

Custom OID of 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.2.3.1.1 equals a response of No Such Name (SNMP error #2)

The Local IP is the IP of the server you are running the test on. The Device IP should be the HP server.

Can you do an uptime scan and have it be successful? Other than that, I would say to please submit a ticket to [email protected] with your logs.

Uptime is successful - but OID as previous states No Such Name

Please try OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.232 and post the results.

----------------------- New Test ----------------------- Paessler SNMP Tester 3.2 Device: 10.11.12.5

25/06/2013 14:38:05 (99 ms) : Start using SNMP V2c 25/06/2013 14:38:05 (135 ms) : ------- 25/06/2013 14:38:05 (159 ms) : Value: No such object (SNMP error # 222) 25/06/2013 14:38:05 (194 ms) : Done

If the server is showing that for the OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.232 then something has to be misconfigured in the server itself or possibly the SNMP tester.

The OIDs that are available through the Insight Manager all start with that OID so performing a walk on that OID should yield something there especially if you were able to create some of the other sensors on that HP server.