Limited SNMP Information

[Khue]

I decided to start using Orion to monitor my ESX servers. At the moment I can see 1 and I have 2. The first server I enabled, I updated both snmpd.conf and snmpd.conf.esx and only changed their ro community string line. After doing this I was able to see many details, pretty much everything i expected to see. I repeated the process on the second server and I was only able to see 3 items: cpu load, loopback, and volume utilization. I have tried restarting the snmp daemon to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Texiwill · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Make sure the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file for the working server is identical to the non-working server. Then restart snmpd. Also make sure the firewall is setup to allow snmp

service snmpd restart
esxcfg-firewall -e snmpd

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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[Khue]

Thanks, I will try that. Is there a way to specify an IP for the

firewall with that esxcfg-firewall command? I want to specify the

destination and I only want SNMP information to go to and from that

server.

I suppose I could do this with IPTables, but is that the only way?

Jonathan Finkbiner