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Establishing Connectivity with the HMC/SE

Accomplishing all the following steps to achieve HMC connectivity may require that you contact and work with your Network Administrator or Security Administrator.

For more information about configuring SNMP for use between CA Automation Point and your HMC, see the IBM manual SB10-7030: System z Application Programming Interfaces. Specifically, Chapter 6, "Configuring for the data exchange APIs," gives detailed a description of SNMP configuration.

The HMC/SE communicates using the SNMP network protocol. You need to configure the CA Automation Point server and the HMC/SE to send and receive SNMP traps between each other.

Note: Accomplishing all of the following steps to achieve HMC connectivity may require that you contact and work with your Network Administrator or Security Administrator.

For more information about configuring SNMP for use between CA Automation Point and your HMC, see the IBM manual "SB10-7030: System z Application Programming Interfaces". Chapter 6 "Configuring for the data exchange APIs" gives detailed a description of SNMP configuration.

To establish connectivity with the HMC/SE

On the local CA Automation Point server:

  1. Install Windows SNMP Service.
  2. Determine the community name and TCP/IP address for every HMC/SE that CA Automation Point must communicate with. Note the community name and TCP/IP address for each HMC/SE.
    1. The community name and TCP/IP address for the target HMC/SE are required parameters for each APCMOSI Rexx program call.
    2. The community name and TCP/IP address for each monitored HMC/SE is required for configuring HAF under Configuration Manager.
  3. Configure the Windows SNMP Service through the additional tabs on the properties for the SNMP service. From the Traps tab, configure SNMP service to receive and initiate traps from the list of HMC/SE community names and TCP/IP addresses with which CA Automation Point must communicate.

Note: Community names are case sensitive.

On each HMC/SE workstation:

  1. Determine the community name and TCP/IP address for each CA Automation Point server with which the HMC/SE must communicate.
  2. Add the CA Automation Point servers to the broadcast list for HMC/SE using the community name and TCP/IP address for each CA Automation Point server.