SCOM does not discover Virtual HP SIM Server

Question

I am running SCOM 2012 R2 with the latest HP MPs installed. They are working fine and monitoring hardware, HP devices, etc. We have a SIM server that is a Virtual Server.
The MPs do not discover our SIM server as a "SIM" server. I started investigating and noticed that the SIM server discovery is targeting "HP ProLiant server". I checked the HP ProLiant Server Discovery, and it is looking for a computer
model that contains "proliant." Well, this is a VM, so the model does not contain proliant. Therefore the SIM discovery never triggers on the server.
Has anyone else seen this issue and do you know how to resolve?
Brody Kilpatrick

Answer 1

I do not have any specific experience with this management pack but have run into a similar issue in the past and used the below workaround.
My case was similar in that the End Class I wanted to target wasn't being found because an intermediate (HP ProLiant server in your case) was missing.  To solve the issue I created a separate class with my own discovery, that discovered the intermediate
class.
From there out everything worked correctly,
Not a perfect answer but might be of help.
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