I have a few servers which are filling the informational log file with lots of messages saying the following

Health Status Array Change Occurred (11020)

I found an advisory saying that this happens with with ilo 4 verion 1.22 or less, as in the link below

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03961195-1

Most of these servers have a higher version than 1.22, so the question is, Can i make sim just ignore this alert and not fill up the events with this alert?

Thanks

i've attached a screen shot of the errors i'm seeing

I'm trying to set up VCRM, and i have installed VCRM on my HP SIM server, and ive now installed the VCA on the same server as well. And to start you need to configure the vca to the VCRM. But it doesn't mater if i type the server name, localhost etc, and i just geta  message saying unable to connect to VCRM. Even though its on the same server. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi All,

I know you can change the event severity for some alerts by changing the MIB/Trap settings.  My question is, can you change the event severity for generated by HP SIM?  For example, if a data collection retries HP Insight Manager generates a minor event.  I'd love to be able to change an event like this to informational.  Ideas? 

I've been racking my brain on this one.  I set up VCRM on a server a few months ago and was getting "The specified repository, [server], is invalid or not reachable".  After a couple of months of research, I find a post that suggests doing these command lines:

C:\HP\hpsmh\bin>smhconfig.exe -Z ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:!EXPORT40:DES-CBC3-SHA:RC4-MD5:RC4-SHA:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-SSLv2:+EXP:!LOW:!eNULL:!aNULL

C:\HP\hpsmh\bin>smhconfig.exe -r

At first, this didn't seem to work.  Then one day it did and the server was working fine for a few months.  Now I'm getting the same error message.  The above fix does not work. 

Tried installing on different servers, no luck.  Checked firewall, no change.  Tried IP and fqdn.  Made sure have latest SMH and VCRM.

Any ideas?

Thanks 

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When I try and install HP Insight Manager 7.4 on a Domain Controller running server 2012, I keep getting the following  error. All pre-requisites are installed. Can anyone help in getting it installed or am I using the wrong product.

HP Systems Insight Manager Installer detected an unsupported operating system. For installation to proceed further, you must have a supported operating system. Refer to the HP Insight Management Support Matrix to review list of operating system requirements.

Thanks

Bruce

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Hey Guys,

I am having a tonne of problems setting up a new instance of SIM and VCEM.

When I install SIM it can then not be contacted for the rest of the install and fails to install VCEM and everything else.

I cannot login to the console after this install. Service is started but it is not listening on port 280. Keep scoming up in event log:

Could not open all web server ports, check for port conflicts, eg port 280, 50000, 50001, or 50002

There are no port conflicts and firewall is not running.

Install details:

Win 2012 R2 HyperV Image

Local SQL Express DB

I have reinstalled 3 times now with slightly different options and makes no difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello people,

For you who are interested, there is a hotfix for SIM, this includes aan Poolde fix. The info from the FTP txt file is pasted below:

FILE NAME:  SIM74_hotfix_2015_Apr_win.exe                                          

TITLE:  Hotfix Update Kit for HP Systems Insight Manager 7.4- Windows (Apr 2015)

LANGUAGE:  English

OPERATING SYSTEM:  All supported Windows operating systems.

PREREQUISITES:  HP Systems Insight Manager 7.4 - Windows

EFFECTIVE DATE:  Apr 07 2015

DESCRIPTION:  Hotfix Update Kit for HP Systems Insight Manager 7.4- Windows (Apr 2015)

   This kit installs hotfixes to HP Systems Insight Manager 7.4.

   SIM improvements and bug fixes new to this hotfix update kit:

               - Set cipher suites for HTTPClient that are supported in HP SIM.
               - Integrated SPP components.
               - Integrated hpsum and mibs.
               - HPSIM Microsoft cluster, szWaitForData and ERR_NO_MSCS_DATA_MESSAGE. Checking now with the IP Address and the Cluster Name. On IPv6 Configured System we dnt get IP Address.
               - OSType of ESXi server is changed from Hypervisor when iLO with AMS is discovered.
               - Cygwin in HP SIM is vulnerable to Shellshock.
               - HP SIM launch of NonStop OSM Event Viewer should use https.
               - Upgraded openssl binaries for POODLE vulnerability
               - SIM is vulnerable to WebServer Version Disclosure
               - SLES12 components bundled with SIM 7.4.1
               - Offline deployment is getting skipped on 7.4 linux cms
               - Page Scroll downs automatically when Retrieve from system option is selected.
               - Utility for upgrading OpenSSL binaries on customer setup.
               - POODLE vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566): Disabling SSLv3 protocol in SIM
               - SIM 7.3 trust relationship with SMH is broken
               - LDAP SSO from SIM fails when username contains a !
               - Storage XP7 discovery support.
               - TLS Support enabled.
               - WBEM fails to subscribe in MSSW of Insight software.
               - OSType of ESXi server is changed from Hypervisor when iLO with AMS is discovered.
               - AMS is not getting installed on SLES12 target through CRA and  its getting installed on the target manually.
               - Upgraded snmp4j support.
               - 3PAR STOARGE DATA COLLECTION SHOWS WRONG DATA in Summary.
               - SSO is failing, while 2K and 4K Certificate is present on the Target.
               - HP SIM launch of NonStop OSM Event Viewer should use https.
               - CMS pushes 1k Certificate instead of 4K for SMH 7.4.2.4
               - Configure Openssh failing on windows target after deployment through CRA.
               - SIM service not coming up after 7.4.1 patch install on 32bit OS
               - Support for DMT to include new version format
               - Deployments from remote VCRM 7.4.2 through HPSUM is failing
               - 3PAR STOARGE DATA COLLECTION SHOWS WRONG DATA
               - Task results showing different SMH version
               - Updating HP-SIM registration URL.
               - Software status is not getting populated after deployment of whole SPP.          
               - Error occurred while importing data, Inserting bulk data to DB failed.
               - Capacity Information showing wrong value while using Oracle db.           
              
HOW TO USE:

1. Ensure that you are logged in to Windows with a user account that
   is a member of the "Administrators" group and that the user
   account also has Systems Insight Manager administrative privileges.

2. Download the kit to a directory on your hard drive (other than
   the root of the drive) and change to that directory.  The file
   that is downloaded is a self-extracting executable with the name
   SIM74_hotfix_2015_Apr_win.exe.

3. From that drive and directory, execute the downloaded file
   and follow the on-screen instructions to unpack the files and
   install the kit.  Note that it will stop and restart
   the Systems Insight Manager service and other services that use Systems
   Insight Manager during this process.  The entire update should take
   less than 10 minutes.

4. After a successful installation, you may delete the self-extracting
   file and the files unpacked in step 3 if you wish.

(C) Copyright 2015 Hewlett-Packard Development Group, L.P.

Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of their respective companies

Hi

I have 2 Gen9 with Ubuntu 14 and HPSIM 7.4

Ther is no agent for Gen9 so i only use ILO agentless (no ams), i set read and trap community, snmp destination is HPSIM

If i discover the Server himself in HPSIM, it complete with major errors

Major:    The system cannot be identified properly for HP SIM to manage;

If i discover ILO, no problem system is well recognize with the health summary/status but in system managed i have only the serial numer not server name (See attachement). However in ILO homepage, server name is set ...

Also if i send test trap from ILO nothing happend in HPSIM

thanks for your clarification

Does anyone how to reset the HP System Management Homepage(regarding ILO connections), without rebooting the server?

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This is a simple question; however, I could not find the answer after browsing the documentation.   Is HP's Insight software a paid or free thing?

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hi folks,

can anyone help me out, i keep getting (SNMP) Authentication Failure from a lot of servers not all servers but some, how do i fix it?

thanks

Owen.

I have a question about HP-SIM Version 7.4 and the SQL Server support.  It states in the Support Matrix that HP-SIM V7.4 supports only up to SQL 2012 SP1.

What I need to find out is will HP-SIM V7.4 support an SQL 2012 database intance that is running on an 2014 SQL Server?  If not is there a version of HP-SIM planned that will support 2014 SQL Server?

Thanks,

Phil

I'm looking at a SIM server where HP ProLiant servers have been successfully monitored by SIM for some time.  However recently we have seen a large proportion of servers been reassigned as Cisco devices. The iLOs have become disassociated with their parent server.   Servers with hardware issues are now reporting no errors. 

Has anyone seen this issue before or have any ideas on what might be causing it or know where to look? (mx.log doesn't appear to shed any light on it).

People,

I'd like to know what is the actual benefits of installing or configuring HP SIM v7 in the data center as oppose to just uisng HP Insight Management Agentconfigured in all HP servers ?

Is there any requirement or prerequisite in all of my servers before installing and configuring HP SIM ?

Thanks. 

Hi,

I've got the older version of HP SIM that is running on an old DL 380 G5 server with the following version:

Version:  Systems Insight Manager 6.3 - Windows 
Build version:  C.06.03.00.00 
Build date:  2011-03-28 22:02 

Windows Server 2008 R2 Std. No SP.

SQL Server 2008 Standard SP1 (same server)

what I'd like to do is to upgrade the server firmware with HP SPP 2015.04and also upgrade all of the software components into below:

Version: Systems Insight Manager 7.4 - Windows

Windows Server 2008 R2 Std. SP1.

SQL Server 2012 Standard SP2 (Different Server)

Can I do the inline upgrade by running the latest HP SIM v7.4 setup wizard ?

If anyone know the Step by steps or the official KB article to do the above upgrade and Database migration, please sahre it here.

Thanks in advance,

People,

I'm currently instaling and reconfiguring the HP SIM v7.4 in my Data Center to monitor several remote office sites (~75 sites) each equipped with multiple versions of server hardware like the following:

HP ML110 G4 (old P4) with no iLO

HP ML110 G5 with no iLO

HP DL160 G6

HP DL380 G5

...

HP ML 310 G8-V2 

HP ML110 G9

All of those old servers has been installed manually using Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard.ISO and I've managed to configure the HP WBEM providerand HP Insight Management Agentmanually eventhough the download site doesn't list Windows Server 2012 R2 in the drop down list. But at least all of the servers can now send out email afterit is rebooting successfully.

I've enabled the Windows SNMP feature from the Server Manager.

My question is that, how can I configure HP SIM to send out alert for those old servers with no iLO / management processor ?

Are those old servers can still be monitored by HP SIM for a potential hardware failure or expiring contract ?

Thanks.

Hello!

I have set up a new server for HPSIM but I've hit something of a brick wall with discovery..

the iLOs and OAs all discover fine, but when I start discovering the windows servers, I am unable to get them properly discovered.

I have updated SMH to the latest version on the server and even tried disabling UAC on both the HPSIM server and the target server, after googling this issue, but I still get this result.

The discovery log from one of the servers:

********* Significant issues and overall target discovery/identification
status:
Major: The system cannot be identified properly for HP SIM to manage;
unable to get one or more of the following: model, serial number or
unique identifier (UUID). For management processors, verify the
system is running the latest firmware. For Linux based operating
systems, you must have dmidecode installed, enable the
PermitRootLogin and PasswordAuthentication in sshd, and use root
sign-in credential. For HP-UX, verify the sign-in credential. For
Windows, check if WMIMapper is configured correctly on the CMS and
verify the sign-in credential.
Critical: The system(s) can not be identified by WBEM, SNMP or SSH

********* Additional results (listed for information only):

* Starting identification process...
* Checking for known running web servers...
* Checking for SNMP protocol support on system...
Normal: The system did not respond to SNMP. Verify security settings and
community strings in Options->Security->Credentials->System
Credentials
* Checking for SNMPv3 protocol support on system...
Normal: The system did not respond to SNMPv3. Verify security settings and
v3 credentials in Options->Security->Credentials->System
Credentials
* Running HP ProLiant management agent identification...
Normal: The system does not support SNMP.
* Running SNMP base cluster identification using common cluster
MIB...
Normal: SNMP is not supported or globally disabled, skipping SNMP cluster
identification.
* Checking for WBEM protocol support on system...
Minor: This system does not have any SMI-S CIMOMs installed. No storage
systems will be found on this system.
Minor: The Central Management System (CMS) cannot communicate with the
CIMOM locally installed on the managed system using the WBEM
protocol, Identification will try to identify Windows systems using
the WMI Mapper as proxy; for Linux and HP-UX systems, check
credentials by going to Options->Security->Credentials->System
Credentials. For Linux systems also check if the HP WBEM provider
is installed.
* Running WBEM rules based identification...
Minor: Identification cannot get computer system hardware data from the
WBEM / WMI providers.
* Running Virtual Machine (VM) Host (non HP Integrity VM Host)
Identification...
Normal: The system is not a VM Host (non HP Integrity VM Host), or WBEM
credentials may not be specified so skipping VM Identification.
* Running Storage identification...
* Did not detect the WBEM protocol support on this system. SMI
storage identification will be skipped.
* Storage identification completed.
* Running HP NetServer identification...
Normal: The system does not support SNMP.
* Running HP-UX SNMP identification...
Normal: The system does not support SNMP.
* Running OA Identifier which will discover systems in an enclosure
if the automatic enclosure discovery option for OA is enabled...
Normal: The system is not an Onboard Administrator, skipping automatic
discovery of systems in the enclosure.
* Running XMLReply Identifier which will discover systems in a
rack/enclosure if the automatic discovery option for the container
node is enabled...
* Running iLO Identifier which will discover the server if the
automatic server discovery option for iLO is enabled...
Minor: The system responds to the HTTP request but cannot get the XML
output. It is normal for servers not to get the XML data.
Minor: If the http communication from CMS to target is working, but if it
is found to be slow then try increasing the Default connection
timeout parameter for http in global protocol settings.
* Running p-Class Identifier...
Normal: The system is not a p-Class so skipping p-Class identification.
* Running IPMI protocol identification...
Minor: Running an ipmiutil command failed and the IPMI protocol is not
supported.
* Running SSH Protocol identification...
Normal: This system has SSH protocol support.
* Running SSH Identification...
Minor: The system cannot be logged in using SSH protocol; check
credentials or check the settings in the SSH configuration file
* Running WS-Man identification...
Minor: The system did not respond to WS-Management (WS-Man) request.
* Running Monarch OA Identification...
Normal: The system is not a monarch OA so skipping monarch OA
identification.
* Checking for System Management Homepage and other HP web agents...
Normal: The system is not a server, storage or desktop. Skipping the check
for System Management Homepage.
* Running HP Serviceguard Identification...
* Running SNMP System Type manager ...
Normal: The system does not support SNMP.
* Running SNMP subtypes identification...
* Resolving DNS names...
Normal: The fully qualified domain name was successfully resolved for the
system.
* Checking if the Node is a Virtual Center...
Normal: Skipping MxVirtualCenter Identifier.
* Running Virtual Machine Management (VMM) Plug-in Identification...
* Building system relationships...
Minor: The Secure Shell key-based access authentication is not configured
on the system(s).
Minor: System Management Homepage (SMH) is not installed or is not
responding on the system(s).
* Running system Manage Communication diagnosis...
* System identification finished on system.

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Hi,

I'd like to install the current version of HP SIM v7.4 in the same physical server where currently the old HP SIM v6.3 is running.

How can I do it safely without losing the data in the HP SIM ?

Thanks.

Hi,

Can anyone here please share me the steps that I need to take to successfully migrate the HP SIM v6.3 SQL 2008 database into the SQL Server 2012 on different server ?

Because I'd like to uninstall the current HP SIM v6.3 and install the new version 7.4 and still re using the existing hardware information.

Thanks,