Specifications

VMware, Inc. Update–3
Updates for the Basic Administration Guide
Table 5‐1liststheMIBfilesprovidedbyVMwareanddescribestheinformationthat
eachfileprovides.
Updates to the To configure your management program
to interpret VirtualCenter SNMP traps Procedure on
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Step 1intheToconfigureyourmanagementprogramtointerpretVirtualCenterSNMP
trapsprocedureisincorrect.Thefollowingdetailsshouldreplacetheincorrectstep:
1CopythefollowingMIBfilestothelocationrequiredbyyourmanagement
software:
 VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB
 VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB
TheseMIBfilesarerequiredtointerpretVirtualCenterServerTraps.
YoucandownloadtheseSNMPMIBfilesfromtheVMwareWebsite.Refer
KB 1013445formoredetailsondownloadingtheMIBfiles.
Updates to the Using SNMP with ESX Server 3 Section on
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ThesentenceintheUsingSNMPwithESXServer3sectionregardingSMIv1and
SNMPv1shouldbereplacedwiththefollowingcontent:
TheESXServer3Net‐SNMP‐basedagentcanbeusedwithanymanagementsoftware
thatcanloadandcompileamanagementinformationbase(MIB)inSMIv2formatand
canunderstandSNMPv2trapmessages.
Updates to the Configuring the ESX Server Agent from
the Service Console Section on Page 95
TheConfiguringtheESXServerAgentfromtheServiceConsolesectiondoesnot
providedetailedinstructionsforconfiguringanESXServ erhostforgeneratingtraps.
Thefollowingprocedure,whichenablesyoutomodify/etc/vmware/snmp.xmlto
setuptraptargetsforVMwarerelatedtrapsfromserviceconsole,shouldbeaddedto
thissection.
(ReferKB1008065tousethevicfg-snmpcommandfromtheRemoteCLI
toenabletheSNMPagentandconfiguretrapdestinations).