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Chapter 5 System Configuration
Using SNMP with Guest Operating Systems
TouseSNMPtomonitorguestoperatingsystemsorapplicationsrunninginvirtual
machines,installtheSNMPagentsyounormallywoulduseforthatpurposeinthe
guestoperatingsystems.NospecialconfigurationisrequiredonESXServer.
Thevirtualmachineusesitsownvirtualhardwaredevices.Youshouldnotinstall
agentsintendedtomonitorhardwareonthephysicalcomputerinthevirtualmachine.
snmpInBadCommunityNames snmp 4 Thetotalnumberofcommunity‐based
SNMPmessagesdeliveredtotheSNMP
entitythatusedaninvalidSNMP
communityname.
snmpInBadCommunityUses snmp 5 Thetotalnumberofcommunity‐based
SNMPmessagesdeliveredtotheSNMP
entitythatrepresentedanSNMPoperation
thatwasnotallowedforthecommunity
namedinthemessage.
snmpInASNParseErrs snmp 6
ThetotalnumberofASN.1orBERerrors
encounteredbytheSNMPentitywhen
decodingreceivedSNMPmessages.
snmpEnableAuthenTraps snmp 30 IndicateswhethertheSNMPentityis
permittedtogenerateauthenticationFailure
traps.Thevalueofthisobjectoverridesany
configurationinformation.Ittherefore
providesameansofdisablingall
authenticationFailuretraps.
snmpSilentDrops snmp 31 Thetotal
numberofConfirmedClassPDUs
deliveredtotheSNMPentitythatwere
silentlydroppedbecausethesizeofareply
containinganalternateResponseClass
PDUwithanemptyvariable‐bindingsfield
wasgreaterthaneitheralocalconstraintor
themaximummessagesizeassociatedwith
theoriginatorofthe
request.
snmpProxyDrops snmp 32 ThetotalnumberofConfirmedClassPDUs
deliveredtotheSNMPentitythatwere
silentlydroppedbecausethetransmission
ofthemessagetoaproxytargetfailedina
mannerotherthanatime‐outsuchthatno
ResponseClassPDUcouldbereturned.
Table 5-11. Diagnostic Counters from SNMPv2-MIB (Continued)
Variable ID Mapping Description