Has anyone take a crack at discovery of LPAR information from an HMC on a Z-13 Z-series server?

[moosejr]

My organization has a need to understand and gather LPAR information from a Z-series (Z-13) IBM server HMC for our CMDB.  We have limited success getting to the HMC via SNMP discovery in that we can see the HMC but are unable to "walk" as in our network devices out to get any information.  Our IBM engineers have provided us with a "technical bulletin" that suggest that an SNMP API might be the solution using the "GET BULK" commands.  Internal to our organization, this is receiving negative energy as those in charge of the Z environment are hesitant as they believe this would be an access with the ability to issue commands which is HIGHLY restricted.  I would like to know if anyone has attempted to crack this nut and if there is any advice available on the better direction for this disocvery.  Thank you for your valuable time and consideration on this situation!!

[Chuck Tomasi]

Good luck. Hopefully between the community and IBM, you can get something useful.

[jooststeffensen]

Hi Chuck,

Had a look at the IBM Virtualization update set and noticed the latest update was regarding Fuji. Do you know if this will still work on Jakarta or is there maybe some OOTB functionality that could be utilized?

Kind Regards,

Joost

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Joost,

Technically, the Fuji update set will install on later versions. The bigger question is: Is the update set matched to the right version of IBM VM software? When I wrote it several years ago, I heard rumblings about a year later that the payloads returned were a bit different. You may have to do some tweaking to the data returned from the probes to get it to behave the way you want.

Check with customer support... they may have added IBM virtualization support OOB somewhere along the way.

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