HP Blade Enclosure Applet

Over the last few weeks we have been working on building a couple of new Data Centers and getting SCOM up and running to monitor them. Obviously monitoring the HP servers was a top priority. Our client has a mix of standalone servers and C-Series Blade enclosures. For those of you that haven't played with the more recent HP MPs, let me just say they have changed a bit. In the MOM2005 days the HP monitoring was done with some simple MPs that monitored the HP Agents, SNMP, Evt logs etc. In SCOM 07 there are some applets that you have to install on a Management Server (or the RMS... Gateways are NOT supported (I tried)). These applets are collectors of sort, they gather the information from the hardware and pass it along to SCOM (this is completely simplified, and I know there is more to it than this). There are some MPs that have to be imported (as they all don't get imported, a little bug). There are two applets, one for standalone servers and one for Blade Enclosures. The Proliant server pack is very straight forward. There is a bit more to the Blade pack. Once you install it and make sure the MPs are imported, you have to discover the Enclosure (from within the applet). All the documentation I read said that communications from the applet to the Enclosure is over 5316. What we found today is the communication is actually over TCP port 443 (at least the discovery). We spent a couple of days trying to figure out why the discovery wasn't working. The Mgt server we are using as the Collector for HW is in a separate VLAN than the Enclosures; so knowing all the ports we needed was important. The only thing we could think of was HP figured 443 would be open by default, and/or user error reading the docs and we over looked all the port info.

Long story short... you need 443 and 5316 (we are still wondering about 5316) to use the Blade Enclosure SCOM MPs.

Hope this helps.

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