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
2 Congure SNMP Authentication and Privacy Protocols on page 156
SNMPv3 optionally supports authentication and privacy protocols.
3 Congure SNMP Users on page 157
You can congure up to 5 users who can access SNMP v3 information. User names must be no more
than 32 characters long.
4 Congure SNMP v3 Targets on page 158
Congure SNMP v3 targets to allow the ESXi SNMP agent to send SNMP v3 traps and informs.
Configure the SNMP Engine ID
Every SNMP v3 agent has an engine ID which serves as a unique identier for the agent. The engine ID is
used with a hashing function to generate keys for authentication and encryption of SNMP v3 messages.
If you do not specify an engine ID, when you enable the SNMP agent, an engine ID is automatically
generated.
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
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Run the esxcli system snmp set command with the --engineid option to congure the SNMP engine
ID.
For example, run the following command:
esxcli system snmp set --engineid id
Here, id is the engine ID and it must be a hexadecimal string between 5 and 32 characters long.
Configure SNMP Authentication and Privacy Protocols
SNMPv3 optionally supports authentication and privacy protocols.
Authentication is used to ensure the identity of users. Privacy allows for encryption of SNMP v3 messages
to ensure condentiality of data. These protocols provide a higher level of security than is available in
SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c, which use community strings for security.
Both authentication and privacy are optional. However, you must enable authentication to enable privacy.
The SNMPv3 authentication and privacy protocols are licensed vSphere features and might not be available
in some vSphere editions.
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.
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