RE: OT: SCOM (Microsoft system operation manager 2007 strange

Yes. I do.

We use SCOM for our monitoring environment and it is great. I actually am building a series of Management Packs for Cisco and other devices that go really deep into the devices and counters, as well as discovery. I am intimately familiar with SCOM and SNMP in this respect.

As far as the xSNMP goes, I have installed and tested it on a few devices. I am by no means an expert with that particular MP, but I may be able to help you with some initial SCOM SNMP discovery issues.

Have you already discovered your devices in SCOM? I mean the Network Devices that SCOM makes you put in the SNMP Community String, etc. If you have already discovered these devices in SCOM, then you are halfway there. Make sure that you enable Discoveries in xSNMP for discovery, if it is not already enabled. Many company now ship the MP's with most everything Disabled and you will see more of this from these vendors(it is actually good practice).

Make sure that you have your SNMP versions correct. I know a PIX firewall ONLY supports SNMP v1 while the ASA supports v1 & v2. Make sure you can see the Network device discovered in the Discovered Devices view at the console. You should only see it as the IP address and some basic SNMP information in the properties. Verify your SNMP Community Strings. Test with a SNMPGet command line utility to verify you can pull data from the device.

If you get this far, there may be some bug in the MP or maybe it can't discover that particular device at its current software/firmware revision.

I know this really isn't a CCIE study question and it is really off topic for this group, so if you want to ask me more questions about SCOM and SNMP offline, please shoot me an email to stephen at jaxmp dot com.

-Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:47 AM
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: SCOM (Microsoft system operation manager 2007 strange Behavior

Hello everybody,

I am using SCOM (Microsoft system operation manager 2007) to monitor my networking devices using management pack XSNMP, the communication between the networking devices and SCOM is done using SNMP version 2.

The strange thing here is ; few of the networking devices got discovered using SCOM and the others are not!!, Does anybody have any clue on this tool.

Thanks a lot

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Received on Mon Aug 30 2010 - 14:50:12 ART