SolarWinds Hardware Monitoring and IBM X System running ESXi 6.0

[joexm]

I am confused on how to get SolarWinds to poll hardware status directly from an ESXi host.  I am working with our Monitoring Team and I have configured SNMPv2 directly on our IBM servers running ESXi and SolarWinds polls the host, but the information is limited.  It displays that SNMP protocal is being utilized to poll the server but it is not pulling specific hardware health information, such as system temp, fan status, power supply status and so forth.  Can someone please give me some insight into what I may be missing.  I thought I might need to install a hardware monitoring agent on the ESXi host from IBM but I can't find any such software/driver on their support website.

Used ESXCLI to configure/enable SNMP:

esxcli system snmp set --communities YOUR_STRING

esxcli system snmp set --enable true

esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id snmp --allowed-all true

esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id snmp --enabled true

/etc/init.d/snmpd restart

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Hi joexm

You should be able to see hardware health just by adding this host as ICMP node (select Poll for VMware, provide ESX Server credentials) - http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/NPM/content/core-adding-vmware-servers-for-moni...

NPM (or SAM) poll most of the VMware host metrics via VMware API, SNMP is used only to poll volumes and interfaces information - http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/SAM/content/core-requirements-for-monitoring-es...

More details here: http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/NPM/content/core-monitoring-your-virtual-infras...