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
As an alternative to conguring SNMP manually using esxcli commands, you can use host proles to
congure SNMP for an ESXi host. See the vSphere Host Proles documentation for more information.
N For information on conguring SNMP for ESXi 5.0 or earlier or ESX 4.1 or earlier, see the
documentation for the appropriate product version.
n
Congure the SNMP Agent for Polling on page 153
If you congure the ESXi SNMP agent for polling, it can listen for and respond to requests from SNMP
management client systems, such as GET, GETNEXT and GETBULK requests.
n
Congure ESXi for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c on page 154
When you congure the ESXi SNMP agent for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c, the agent supports sending
notications and receiving GET requests.
n
Congure ESXi for SNMP v3 on page 155
When you congure the ESXi SNMP agent for SNMPv3, the agent supports sending informs and
traps. SNMPv3 also provides stronger security than SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c, including key
authentication and encryption.
n
Congure the Source of Hardware Events Received by the SNMP Agent on page 160
You can congure the ESXi SNMP agent to receive hardware events either from IPMI sensors or CIM
indications.
n
Congure the SNMP Agent to Filter Notications on page 160
You can congure the ESXi SNMP agent to lter out notications if you don't want your SNMP
management software to receive those notications.
n
Congure SNMP Management Client Software on page 161
After you have congured a vCenter Server instance or an ESXi host to send traps, congure your
management client software to receive and interpret those traps.
Configure the SNMP Agent for Polling
If you congure the ESXi SNMP agent for polling, it can listen for and respond to requests from SNMP
management client systems, such as GET, GETNEXT and GETBULK requests.
By default, the embedded SNMP agent listens on UDP port 161 for polling requests from management
systems. You can use the esxcli system snmp set command with the --port option to congure an
alternative port. To avoid conicting with other services, use a UDP port that is not dened
in /etc/services.
If you run ESXCLI commands through vCLI, you must supply connection options that specify the target
host and login credentials. If you use ESXCLI commands directly on a host using the ESXi Shell, you can use
the commands as given without specifying connection options. For more information on connection options
see vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples.
Prerequisites
Congure the ESXi SNMP agent by using the ESXCLI commands. See Geing Started with vSphere Command-
Line Interfaces for more information on how to use ESXCLI.
Procedure
1
Run the esxcli system snmp set command with the --port option to congure the port.
For example, run the following command:
esxcli system snmp set --port port
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