IBM BladeCenter SNMP sensor

The IBM® BladeCenter SNMP sensor discovers and collects configuration information about IBM BladeCenter chassis. In TADDM 7.3.0.3, and later, it also discovers and collects configuration information about IBM PureFlex System chassis.

The sensor uses SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) to discover and query BladeCenter infrastructure components. The Management Module (MM) and the Advanced Management Module (AMM) are the central points of management for the IBM BladeCenter chassis.

Fix Pack 3 The Chassis Management Module (CMM) is the central point of management for the PureFlex® chassis.

Sensor name that is used in the GUI and logs

BladeCenterSnmpSensor

Limitations

The following limitations apply to discovery of both IBM BladeCenter chassis and IBM PureFlex System chassis:

  • The sensor cannot discover chassis if the any of the Management Modules is not responsive.
  • The sensor cannot discover BladeCenters that have two configured network interfaces (eth0 and eth1).
  • You cannot start the first BladeCenter discovery against an empty database. Computer system sensors that discover operating systems that run on blades (such as Linux® and Windows) must be run first. This limitation applies only to the first BladeCenter discovery.
  • The sensor might not obtain sufficient Vital Product Data (VPD) against Redundant Management Modules to create certain model objects. Instances of the ComputerSystem and BladeCenterManagementModule classes that represent Redundant Management Modules, for example, might not be created. In this case, instances of the Board class represent the module.
  • After you discover one or more BladeCenters by using the BladeCenter sensor, the components BladeCenter and BladeCenter Management Module are not present in the list of component types available for use with custom queries. Therefore, you cannot run a custom query for these types of components. This issue applies only to the TADDM Data Management Portal and not to the Discovery Management Console.
  • The BladeCenter does not have L2 interfaces but has Management Modules that have L2 interfaces. To view the L2 interfaces of the Management Modules contained in the BladeCenter, complete the following steps:
    1. In the Details pane, click the Chassis tab to open the Chassis notebook.
    2. Click the MMs tab to open the Management Module notebook.
    3. In the Computer System column, click BladeCenter Management Module.
    4. Click the IP tab to view the L2 interface details.
Fix Pack 3 The following limitations apply to discovery of IBM PureFlex System chassis only:
  • When IBM PureFlex System chassis contains IBM Storwize® v7000 storage, the sensor discovers placeholders for the storage enclosures. To fully discover information about this storage, you must also run the SVC Storage sensor. The data that is discovered by the SVC Storage sensor is reconciled with these placeholders.
  • When you discover IBM PureFlex System chassis, the sys.blade.Alert model object is not created.

Model objects created

The sensor creates the following model objects:

  • core.LogicalContent
  • enums.AlertLevelEnum
  • enums.PhysTypeEnum
  • enums.SlotStateEnum
  • IpAddress net
  • L2Interface
  • net.BindAddress
  • net.Fqdn net
  • phys.physconn.PhysicalConnector
  • phys.physconn.Slot
  • phys.physpkg.Board
  • phys.physpkg.Chassis
  • phys.physpkg.Fan
  • phys.physpkg.PhysicalFrame
  • phys.physpkg.PowerSupply
  • sys.blade.Alert
  • sys.blade.BladeCenterManagementModule
  • sys.blade.LoginProfile
  • sys.ComputerSystem
  • sysControlSoftware
  • sys.DNSService
  • sys.LDAPService
  • sys.ServiceAccessPoint
  • sys.SMTPService