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
Monitor Guest Operating Systems with SNMP
You can use SNMP to monitor guest operating systems or applications running in virtual machines.
The virtual machine uses its own virtual hardware devices. Do not install agents in the virtual machines that
are intended to monitor physical hardware.
Procedure
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Install the SNMP agents you normally would use for that purpose in the guest operating systems.
VMware MIB Files
VMware MIB les dene the information provided by ESXi hosts and vCenter Server to SNMP management
software.
You can download these MIB les from
hp://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/forums/managementapi#SNMP-MIB. On the Web
page, search for Downloading MIB modules.
The table VMware MIB Files lists the MIB les provided by VMware and describes the information that each
le provides.
Table 9‑1. VMware MIB Files
MIB File Description
VMWARE-ROOT-MIB.mib
Contains VMware’s enterprise OID and top-level OID assignments.
VMWARE-AGENTCAP-MIB.mib
Denes the capabilities of the VMware agents by product versions. This le is
optional and might not be supported by all management systems.
VMWARE-CIMOM-MIB.mib
Denes variables and trap types used to report on the state of the CIM Object
Management subsystem.
VMWARE-ENV-MIB.mib
Denes variables and trap types used to report on the state of physical
hardware components of the host computer. Enables conversion of CIM
indications to SNMP traps.
VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB.mib
For use with versions of ESX/ESXi prior to 4.0. Denes OIDs that have been
made obsolete to maintain backward compatibility with earlier versions of
ESX/ESXi. Includes variables formerly dened in the les VMWARE-TRAPS-
MIB.mib and VMWARE-VMKERNEL-MIB.mib.
VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB.mib
Denes OIDs to uniquely identify each SNMP agent on each VMware
platform by name, version, and build platform.
VMWARE-RESOURCES-MIB.mib
Denes variables used to report information on resource usage of the
VMkernel, including physical memory, CPU, and disk utilization.
VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB.mib The VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB.mib le is obsolete. Use the SNMPv2-MIB to
obtain information from sysDescr.0 and sysObjec ID.0.
VMWARE-TC-MIB.mib
Denes common textual conventions used by VMware MIB les.
VMWARE-VC-EVENTS-MIB.mib
Denes traps sent by vCenter Server. Load this le if you use vCenter Server
to send traps.
VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB.mib
Denes variables for reporting information about virtual machines, including
virtual machine traps.
The table Other MIB Files lists MIB les included in the VMware MIB les package that are not created by
VMware. These can be used with the VMware MIB les to provide additional information.
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