IBM Hardware Management Console sensor

Sensor name that is used in the GUI and logs

HmcSensor

Resources discovered by the sensor

The process for discovering an HMC is like discovering a standard computer system. The most important issues that impact discovery is connectivity and authentication. If the account configured in the Agile Service Manager access list can connect to the HMC, the discovery is successful.

Through the HMC, the following resources can be discovered:

• HMC, the hardware management console.
• The systems managed by the HMC (System p and System i computer systems).
• The logical partitions (LPARs) defined within each managed system.
• If an LPAR is installed with the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS), the VIOS is discovered.

Depending on the discovery scope, discovering a computer system (LPAR) can discover two instances of the computer system:

• The computer system (LPAR) discovered by the HMC sensor.
• The computer system discovered by the normal Agile Service Manager sensor for the particular operating system, such as Linux® or AIX®, among others.

  This instance is discovered just as a physical Linux or AIX computer system. There are no special Agile Service Manager sensors to discover these virtual computer systems any differently than the physical computer systems they emulate.

The computer system (LPAR) discovered by the HMC is a shallow computer system. The following key attributes, which form the naming rule, are discovered:

• Manufacturer
• Model
• Serial number
• LPAR ID

After discovery, Agile Service Manager merges the two instances into a single computer system.

With the discovery of HMC and the storage sensor discovery of LPARs, you can see a mapping between the LPAR disk and the virtual target device of a VIOS.