ESXi 5 + HP Management HomePage

[syn3rgy]

Hi All,

Wondering if you could help me out.

Im trying to get the HP Management Homepage working for the ESXi 5 hosts.

We have HP SIM installed and running, the 3 ESXi 5 Hosts were installed with ESXi 5 from the HP website so it has all the CIM providers etc.

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OS and Server Details

Product Description

System Type Server System Subtype HP ProLiant, x86 System, VMware ESX Host, Virtual Machine Host, Embedded Product Model ProLiant DL360 G7 Hardware Description LDNvSPHERE01.xxxxxxxx.com OS Name VMware ESXi 5.0.0 build-474610 OS Type Hypervisor OS Version 5.0.0 OS Description #1 SMP Release build-515841 Oct 28 2011 13:18:56 Management Protocols SNMP:1.0, WBEM:1.0, SSH:SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.6

I have done the following steps:

1) From the service consol, login and go to
     /etc/vmware/firewall/

2) Create a file called HPManagementHomepage.xml and add the following:

<ConfigRoot>

  <service>

    <id>HPManagementHomepage</id>

    <rule id='0000'>

      <direction>inbound</direction>

      <protocol>tcp</protocol>

      <porttype>dst</porttype>

      <port>2381</port>

    </rule>

    <rule id='0001'>

      <direction>outbound</direction>

      <protocol>tcp</protocol>

      <porttype>dst</porttype>

      <port>2381</port>

    </rule>

    <enabled>true</enabled>

    <required>false</required>

  </service>

</ConfigRoot>

3) Refresh and List the firewall:
esxcli network firewall refresh
esxcli network firewall ruleset list

4) Check the rules:
esxcli network firewall ruleset rule list | grep HPManagementHomepage 

5) In vcenter, ensure the rule has updated in the Configuration > Security Profile
which is has.

However, when i try browse to https://LDNvSPHERE01:2381 it does not work  

So my questions are:

1) Is it possible to get working

2) what am i doing wrong

3) How do i make the firewall rule persistant so if i reboot the server I do not lose the rule.

[harrygunter]

Hi,

ESXi5 doesnt support the old style Homepage Management Agents.

You have to run something like HP Systems Insight Manager and add the Hosts in using WBEM to get all the infor out of the hardware.

Check out this thread, it has the procedure to add the Hosts into SIM.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1590665

Cheers

Mark

[a_p_]

Afaik the management home page was/is only available for the classic ESX, not for ESXi.

André

[syn3rgy]

I thought that was going to be the case.

I have HP System Insight Manager, however, how do you manage things like doing the updates of the firmware etc for the server + Making changes to the RAID configurations etc? it seems the HP System Insight Manager gives you all the info but does not let you make some changes etc like you could do from the Homepage of a server.

[harrygunter]

You have never been able to update the firmeware or software for ESX through the Homepage, only windows and linux boxes do that.

To change Raid config you will have to go into the RBSU on boot, and if you do need to update the HP offline bundle you could do that via the VUM by adding it in.

Any firmware update use the Firmeware ISO and attach it to the Hosts via the iLO and update that way.

Cheers

Mark