How to configure HyperV(Windows) Pluging for Sysedge 5.9 agent

[Jose Gutierrez]

Hi Catalin,

 

I read the manual you send. I see that you have to configure something after install the sysedge agent and the AIM Hyper-V.

 

 

I have some doubts about the Step number 4 Enable remotw WMI firewall, ¿this command just add a new rule on Windows Firewall? because I have productive virtual machines running on this server and I dont want to made something that can shutdown any Virtual Machines.

 

And about the step 5, we are using Administrator Account on the Hyper-V but If I looked on the "Distribuited COM Users" group Administrator its not part of it. I have to add Administrator Account?

 

Thnks for the help and I hope you can answer my questions.

 

Regards

 

José

 

[Catalin Farcasanu]

I would open the firewall just locally for the requests being made by the agent itself. Advanced Encryption is mandatory for any AIM installed on the agent. The steps you described earlier assure the proper communication between the AIM and the Hyper-V and nothing more. 

You can try with your current setup, without making the required changes to see if it works. Most probably it will not. Take one at a time and see if works, but it's a long process. The required changes should not interfere with the functioning of your systems. Again, if firewall is a problem, open the port only for local communication. The command described there enables the predefined firewall rule. You can modify it to allow communication only from local machine.

Most problematic setting here would be the disabling of UAC. That might not be allowed by your local security policies.

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Senior Consultant
SolvIT Networks
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[Jose Gutierrez]

Hi Catalin,

 

I run command and was succesfull.

 

C:\Users\Administrator>netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)" new enable=yes

Updated 4 rule(s).

Ok.

 

The Advanced Encryption was installed.

 

 

But the Nodecfgutil.exe its not present in the indicated path in order to add the Hyper-V configuration.

 

 

There is something else that I have to configure on server running Hyper-V?

 

Regards

 

José

 

[Silvio Okamoto]

Hi José,

The nodecfgutil.exe file is located in the following directory:
C:\Program Files\CA\SystemEDGE\plugins\AIPCommon>

Launch the nodecfgutil.exe utility in a DOS-Prompt window.

Use the following KB as a guideline:
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=204863

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Technical Support Engineer IV
Broadcom Inc
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[Jose Gutierrez]

Hi Silvio,

 

The nodecfgutil its not in the path.

 

 

Regards

 

José

 

[Brian Flad]

Jose

What version of Hyper-V are you using?

Brian 

[Jose Gutierrez]

Hi Brian,

 

The Hyper-V it´s versión 10.0.14393 running on Windows 2016.

 

 

Regards

 

José

 

 

 

[Brian Flad]

Jose

OK I figured this would be the case, unfortunately there is no support for Hyper-V 2016\2019 the last certified version was 2012 R2.

SystemEDGE 5.9 is in stabilization mode there is no further platform support being introduced for the Hyper-V AIM:

https://community.broadcom.com/enterprisesoftware/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=1315&MessageKey=97969dc6-bfd7-4c2f-a4ec-95f3b51c90fa&CommunityKey=170eb4e5-a593-4af2-ad1d-f7655e31513b&tab=digestviewer

Brian

[Jose Gutierrez]

Hi Brian,

 

Thanks for the help to everyone. I understand the situation.

 

Have a nice day.

 

José