Which MIB to use

[dwchan]

My network team is trying to monitor the our HP DL380 G5 VM Host for hardware failure and maybe even some performance metric with their OpenView. I find the big MIB file download for HP, but which of the hundred MIB files am I suppose to give to the netowrk guys?

dwc

[ShanVMLand]

You need the following MIB files.You can get them from /usr/lib/vmware/snmp/mibs on ESX server

In Virtual Center "C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\MIBS"

Refer the Basic Administration Guide on Page 83. (copied table down)

MIB File Description

VMWARE-ROOT-MIB.mib Contains VMware’s enterprise OID and top level OID assignments.

VMWARE-ENV-MIB.mib Defines variables and trap types used to report hardware environment status. (ESX Server 3i hosts only)

VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB.mib Defines OIDs to uniquely identify each SNMP agent on each VMware platform.

VMWARE-RESOURCES-MIB.mib Defines variables used to report information on resource usage of the VMkernel, including memory, CPU, and disk utilization.

VMWARE-SYTEM-MIB.mib The VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB.mib file is obsolete. Use the SNMPv2‐MIB to obtain information from sysDescr.0 and sysObjecID.0.

VMWARE-TC-MIB.mib Defines common textual conventions used by VMware MIB files.

VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB.mib Defines virtual machine power‐related traps sent by ESX Server and traps sent by VirtualCenter.

VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB.mib Defines variables for reporting information about virtual machines.

VMWARE-VMKERNEL-MIB.mib Defines variables for VMKernel

Shan

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[dwchan]

How about for the HP DL 380 G5 physical server itself?

dwc

[DSTAVERT]

ESXi only supports traps. If you have the HP version of ESXi installed it has CIM agents that can be monitored with HP SIM or have a look at Veeam Monitor.

[George_Yu]

I want to use Hostmoniter to moniter host's CUP, Mem, and iSCSI storage. Now, Hostmoniter can moniter snamp trat form the host. How to use MIB ot do so? I mean I don't know how to install the MIB on host or which folder can it be copied into on the host.

much thank in advance.

george