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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)
- Space Allocated by Datastore in GB
- Space Capacity by Datastore in GB
- 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 vSphere Health
- 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 in the vSphere Web Client
- Set an Alarm in the vSphere Client
- 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
Table 10‑2. Other MIB Files (Continued)
MIB File Description
IP-MIB.mib
Defines objects for managing implementations of the Internet
Protocol (IP) in an IP version-independent manner.
IP-FORWARD-MIB.mib
Defines objects for managing IP forwarding.
LLDP-V2-MIB.mib
Defines objects for managing devices using Linked Layer
Discovery Protocol (LLDP).
SNMPv2-CONF.mib
Defines conformance groups for MIBs.
SNMPv2-MIB.mib
Defines the SNMP version 2 MIB objects.
SNMPv2-SMI.mib
Defines the Structure of Management Information for SNMP
version 2.
SNMPv2-TC.mib
Defines textual conventions for SNMP version 2.
TCP-MIB.mib
Defines objects for managing devices using the TCP protocol.
UDP-MIB.mib
Defines objects for managing devices using the UDP protocol.
SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters
The SNMPv2-MIB.mib file provides a number of counters to aid in debugging SNMP problems.
Table 10‑3 lists some of these diagnostic counters.
Table 10‑3. Diagnostic Counters from SNMPv2-MIB
Variable ID Mapping Description
snmpInPkts snmp 1
The total number of messages delivered to the SNMP entity
from the transport service.
snmpInBadVersions snmp 3
The total number of SNMP messages that were delivered to
the SNMP entity and were for an unsupported SNMP version.
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.
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