Hello,
In the past I have always used HP servers with the insight agents installed via Smartstart. I then connect to the system management homepage on the server and configure the settings I needed for alerting.
I have now purchased an HP DL380 G8 and have installed VMWare ESXi 5.1 using an HP Custom image for ESX 5.1 downloaded from HP’s website. The ESXi works fine but I now want to be able to set up alerts for the hardware i.e. send me an email when a disk / psu fails. I believe that I need HP SIM for this, so my questions are
- Does HP SIM need to be installed on a separate machine which is always on? If this machine is off does this mean I don’t get alerts (in previous versions the alerts came from the server itself)
- How do I connect HP SIM to my ESX server?
- With previous versions of Insight Manager I used to be able to connect directly to my DL380 server via a web page and manage the settings, can I still do this if so how?
Thanks for any help.