SNMP & NTP

[PKKR]

What is SNMP? and why do we use it? how to enable it?

What is NTP? and why do we use it? how to enable it?

Thanks,

Prashant

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[Virtualinfra]

SNMP - Simple Network management protocol.

It used to monitor the ESXi and vitual machine status, like memory usage, cpu usage, hardware failures and datastore issue, any alerts and send the traps to monitoring server or via email to you.

Refer this for configuration

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008065

NTP:- Network Time protocol

It used to configure time or the server.

Refer KB:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1339

[PKKR]

Thank You.

-Prashant