Re: [NV-L] Does Tivoli netview 7.1.4 support IPMI

[Leslie Clark <lclark@us.ibm.com>]

Netview is an SNMP (Simple Network Management
Protocol) manager for network equipment. It polls for status using ICMP
(ping) and SNMP. It receives traps (SNMP).  The only way it can interact
with IPMI, or DMTF for that matter, is if the implementations of those
protocols include an SNMP component.

As I understand it, IPMI is intended
to replace the vendor-specific hardware agents, like Dell OpenManage,  and
IBM Director, with a common hardware agent, and converge or interoperate
somehow with DMTF, CIM, etc  for higher-level server management. Those
existing agents do have SNMP sub-agents, and Netview will interact with
them via SNMP. But Netview does not have the ability to talk any other
protocols but SNMP and ICMP. 

In the broader enterprise management
scheme of things, I would expect the management application for IPMI for
servers to participate with the network management tools at the event level.
That event management system might be Tivoli Enterprise Console, or Netcool
Omnibus Objectserver or something else.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IT Services Specialist, Network Mgmt
Information Technology Services Americas
IBM Global Services
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager

"Lakka, Rajesh Kumar" <Rajesh.Lakka@in.unisys.com>
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10/11/2006 06:30 AM

Please respond to
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Subject	[NV-L] Does Tivoli netview 7.1.4  support IPMI

IPMI (Intelligent platform Management Interface) is
a protocol from
Intel which is used to fetch the server information. I wanted to know
how best we can use this in Tivoli. Any one who has tried Tivoli with
IPMI before? 

Thanks,
Rajesh

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