Lenovo ThinkServer RD240 Software User's Manual page 227

– MSM allows CIMOM server authentication with the user ID and
the password for VMware.
– Access control is not supported. There is no support for full view
or view only access modes. It is always full view access, and
multiple clients can have full view access at the same time on
the same server.
3. Event Logging:
Full functionality support is available for the VMware ESXi operating
system, but it works differently than the normal MSM framework
mode. The event logging feature for MSM Client connected to a
VMware ESXi system behaves as follows:
– There is no support for retrieving initial logs (the events that
occurred before a client logs in). Only those events that occur
after a client logs in appear in the event logger dialog.
– System log does not display.
– The "Save log" feature is not supported; however, the "Save Log
as Text" is still supported.
– The "View Log" option allows you to view the logs saved in a text
file on the event logger dialog.
– The event descriptions might not be identical to a normal MSM
Client because the descriptions come from the firmware through
the provider.
– There is no filtering of events, unlike Monitor Service.
– Refreshing of the MSM GUI after any updates on the firmware
is slower for a client connected to VMWare ESXi hosts,
compared to one connected to Windows/Linux/Solaris hosts.
4. Remote discovery and heartbeat mechanism:
– For networks that do not have DNS configured, the "hosts" file in
the machine on which MSM is installed must be edited as
follows:
– Add an entry to map the VMWare host's IP address with
the hostname. This is for the discovery to happen
correctly. In the absence of this entry, the VMWare host
would be discovered as 0.0.0.0.
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