6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Contents
- About vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Monitoring Inventory Objects with Performance Charts
- Performance Chart Types
- Data Counters
- Metric Groups in vSphere
- Data Collection Intervals
- Data Collection Levels
- View Performance Charts
- Performance Charts Options Available Under the View Menu
- Overview Performance Charts
- Clusters
- Data centers
- Datastores and Datastore Clusters
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (Virtual Machines)
- Storage I/O Control Normalized Latency
- Storage I/O Control Aggregate IOPs
- Storage I/O Control Activity
- Average Device Latency per Host
- Maximum Queue Depth per Host
- Read IOPs per Host
- Write IOPs Per Host
- Average Read Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Average Write Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Read IOPs per Virtual Machine Disk
- Write IOPs Per Virtual Machine Disk
- Virtual Machine Observed Latency per Datastore
- Hosts
- Resource Pools
- vApps
- Virtual Machines
- CPU (%)
- CPU Usage (MHz)
- Disk (Average)
- Disk (Rate)
- Disk (Number)
- Virtual Disk Requests (Number)
- Virtual Disk Rate (KBps)
- Memory (Usage)
- Memory (Balloon)
- Memory (Swap Rate)
- Memory (Data Counters)
- Network (Usage)
- Network (Rate)
- Network (Packets)
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Fault Tolerance Performance Counters
- Working with Advanced and Custom Charts
- Troubleshoot and Enhance Performance
- Monitoring Guest Operating System Performance
- Monitoring Host Health Status
- Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions
- View Events
- View System Logs
- Export Events Data
- Streaming Events to a Remote Syslog Server
- Retention of Events in the vCenter Server Database
- View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions
- Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms
- Set an Alarm
- Acknowledge Triggered Alarms
- Reset Triggered Event Alarms
- Preconfigured vSphere Alarms
- Monitoring Solutions with the vCenter Solutions Manager
- Monitoring the Health of Services and Nodes
- Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop
- Using the vimtop Plug-In to Monitor the Resource Use of Services
- Monitoring Networked Devices with SNMP and vSphere
- Using SNMP Traps with vCenter Server
- Configure SNMP for ESXi
- SNMP Diagnostics
- Monitor Guest Operating Systems with SNMP
- VMware MIB Files
- SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters
- System Log Files
- View System Log Entries
- View System Logs on an ESXi Host
- System Logs
- Export System Log Files
- ESXi Log Files
- Upload Logs Package to a VMware Service Request
- Configure Syslog on ESXi Hosts
- Configuring Logging Levels for the Guest Operating System
- Collecting Log Files
- Viewing Log Files with the Log Browser
- Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on the vCenter Server Appliance
- Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on a vCenter Server Instance That Runs on Windows
- Retrieve Logs
- Search Log Files
- Filter Log Files
- Create Advanced Log Filters
- Adjust Log Times
- Export Logs from the Log Browser
- Compare Log Files
- Manage Logs Using the Log Browser
- Browse Log Files from Different Objects
- Index
Monitoring Networked Devices with
SNMP and vSphere 9
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is commonly used by management programs to monitor a
variety of networked devices.
vSphere systems run SNMP agents, which can provide information to a management program in at least
one of the following ways:
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In response to a GET, GETBULK, or GETNEXT operation, which is a specic request for information from the
management system.
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By sending a notication which is an alert sent by the SNMP agent to notify the management system of
a particular event or condition.
Management Information Base (MIB) les dene the information that can be provided by managed devices.
The MIB les dene managed objects, described by object identiers (OIDs) and variables arranged in a
hierarchy.
vCenter Server and ESXi have SNMP agents. The agent provided with each product has dierent
capabilities.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Using SNMP Traps with vCenter Server,” on page 151
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“Congure SNMP for ESXi,” on page 152
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“SNMP Diagnostics,” on page 161
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“Monitor Guest Operating Systems with SNMP,” on page 162
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“VMware MIB Files,” on page 162
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“SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters,” on page 163
Using SNMP Traps with vCenter Server
The SNMP agent included with vCenter Server can be used to send traps when vCenter Server starts and
when an alarm is triggered on vCenter Server. The vCenter Server SNMP agent functions only as a trap
emier and does not support other SNMP operations, such as receiving GET, GETBULK, and GETNEXT requests.
vCenter Server can send SNMPv1 traps to other management applications. You must congure your
management server to interpret the SNMP traps sent by vCenter Server.
To use the vCenter Server SNMP traps, congure the SNMP seings on vCenter Server and your
management client software to accept the traps from vCenter Server.
The traps sent by vCenter Server are dened in VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB.mib.
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