Alerts to Multiple/Selected SNMP Receiver

[CKloseFUM]

How can i configure VirtualCenter Alerts to send SNMP-Traps to different Receivers.

We got different DataCenters and every DataCenter has it's own SNMP Receiver.

In VC Management Server Configuration i can set 4 Receivers but within the Alerts i'm not able to select to send to wich one of them.

Any ideas?

[masaki]

All info should be on chapter 5 of vi3 admin guide from page 74.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_admin_guide.pdf

Did you install ESX server snmp module?

I think you can find what you need on page 79.

[Jasemccarty · Accepted solution]

If you setup an alert to send an SNMP trap, it is going to send it to all the SNMP receivers you've setup.

[CKloseFUM]

Both Answers are correct, but they don't help me.

I want to use SNMP ONLY in VirtualCenter Server Alarms and want one receiver for every DataCenter.

For Example:

One VirtualCenter Server in Frankfurt with the following ESX Servers connected and managed by this VC-Server:

5 ESX Server in the Datacenter Berlin

5 ESX Server in the Datacenter Muenchen

etc....

And now i have to configure an SNMP Receiver at every DataCenter(Berlin/Muenchen) for there own VM's managed by the VirtualCenter Server in Frankfurt and i don't want that the SNMP Receiver in Berlin gets the Traps from Muenchen...

[masaki]

You must set VC to send snmp traps to snmp servers in any location.

Then on SNMP server (like HP OVO) you can filter any alert or message you like.

[CKloseFUM]

That's what i'm doing at the moment - but is there no way that i don't have to filter and configure the receiver with the alert?

OK, when there is no possibility to do so ...

thx for your response

[masaki]

There should be a way to configure snmp with the MUI and another with snmp.conf

Look at this thread:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=336973&#336973

[NorbK]

I have Virtual Center setup to send traps to our HP OpenView server but OpenView never receives any traps. The MIBs from the VC server were installed on OpenView. Are there any other magical steps to make this work? Docs on VC and SNMP is very light IMHO.