Configure ESX hosts to send SNMP traps to a third party server

[gboskin]

Can anyone please advise how to configure ESX host ( 3.5) to send SNMP traps to a third party server ...say (10.60.0.1)

[AWo]

1. Open the firewall for port SNMP 162 UDP.

2. Add these lines to your "/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf":

The trap community name: "trapcommunity public"

The target: "trapsink AWo

VCP / vEXPERT 2009

Edited by AWo

[azn2kew]

Depends on what SNMP agents you're using Dell Open Manage, IBM Director, HP SIM, SCOM using nWorks management packs etc...but anyways, using instructions below should work http://lewanps.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/how-to-setup-snmp-on-esx-35-servers/

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Stefan Nguyen

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[gboskin]

Thanks for all yor response i have installed snmp from the article

i have also set up my host to send traps

i have also sent test traps and can see the traps on my monitoring server ..my problem now is ...

1) i need to interpret the oids been sent to my monitoring server

2) It looks like its only sending traps if there is an error or fault on the hots and i need it to send performance stats regularly

[AWo · Accepted solution]

2) It looks like its only sending traps if there is an error or fault on the hots and i need it to send performance stats regularly

If this is possible depends on what VMware put into the MIB's and agents.

You can check for performance metrics in the MIB and I assume that when they exist they are not send as a trap but they need to be requested via a SNMP get from the management suite.

AWo

VCP / vEXPERT 2009

[TomHowarth]

Read the following post for a full explaination http://lewanps.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/how-to-setup-snmp-on-esx-35-servers/

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