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Hardware Status

Hardware Status. Product Support Engineering. VMware Confidential. Agenda. Architectural Overview Hardware Status Information Available diagnostic data Enabling/Disabling CIM providers. Definitions.

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Hardware Status

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  1. Hardware Status Product Support Engineering VMware Confidential

  2. Agenda • Architectural Overview • Hardware Status Information • Available diagnostic data • Enabling/Disabling CIM providers VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

  3. Definitions • SMASH - Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware initiative is a suite of specifications that deliver architectural semantics, industry standard protocols and profiles to unify the management of the data center. http://www.dmtf.org/standards/mgmt/smash/ • CIM - Common Information Model is an open standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Information_Model_(computing) • sfcb - small footprint CIM broker, in 4.0 replaces the 3.5 CIM server called Pegasus • IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

  4. Architecture in ESX 4.0 VI Client 3rd Party Mgmt App • Providers: (plugins) • OMC (IPMI, SMBIOS) • LSI IR/MR (VMware) • Visor In-box 3rd party: (unused by VI client) • LSI MR (LSI) • QLogic • Emulex • Visor OEM images: (unused by VI client) • HP • Dell “Disney” Vpxd (VC server) VI SOAP Vpxa (if VC installed) Internal API Openwsman WS-Man Hostd (host agent) VI SOAP CIMOM – SFCB CIM XML CMPI VMware Supplied Providers (plug-ins) 3rd Party Providers VMkernel Device Drivers VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

  5. Hardware Status - Sensors VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

  6. Hardware Status – Alerts and Warnings VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

  7. Hardware Status – System Event Log VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

  8. Health Status Troubleshooting • Logs & Files on the host: • /var/log/messages – grep for “sfcb” or “cimserver” • /var/log/ipmi/… • https://<hostname>/host • vm-support bundle • /var/tmp/cim.<PID>.txt • /var/tmp/lsi.<PID>.log • /var/lib/sfcb/registration/providerRegister VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

  9. Health Status Troubleshooting • Tools: • In-box tools on ESXi 4.0 • cim-diagnostic.sh • smbiosDump • In-box tools on ESX 4.0 • dmidecode • External/3rd party (you have to download and possibly build from source) • Wbemcli - http://sblim.sourceforge.net/ • Pywbem - http://pywbem.sourceforge.net/ • PowerShell – www.microsoft.com, search for PowerShell • ipmitool - http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/ VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

  10. Enabling/Disabling CIM Providers VI4 - Mod 2-12 - Slide

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