HP Operations Service Console

Manage Intelligent Devices


Using SNMP, HP Operations can manage intelligent SNMP devices where policies cannot be installed (for example, printers, routers, computers with unsupported operating systems). Using the procedure below, such devices can be integrated into and managed from HP Operations.

To manage intelligent devices

  1. Ensure that the device you want to manage has an IP address and is SNMP-enabled. Only devices that meet these conditions can be managed in this way.
  2. Add the device to the list of managed nodes. In the System tab, set Operating System to SNMP, and Version to v1.
  3. If you will be monitoring traps, (and not MIB data), configure the device to send the SNMP traps to the managed node where you intend to distribute the policy that will monitor the traps.
  4. Write an SNMP policy that with rules that match the SNMP events that you are looking for (or a threshold policy to monitor MIB variables), with appropriate actions. The messages can be configured to regard the source of the SNMP messages as a service, so that the device can be added to the service hierarchy.
  5. Distribute the policy to the node to which the intelligent device is sending the SNMP traps (or to the node that will access the MIB data from the intelligent device).