6.0.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Contents
- About vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Updated Information
- 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
- Datacenters
- Datastores
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- 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
- 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 Usage 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
- Index
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 files define the information provided by ESXi hosts and vCenter Server to SNMP management
software.
You can download these MIB files from
http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/forums/managementapi#SNMP-MIB.
The table VMware MIB Files lists the MIB files provided by VMware and describes the information that
each file 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
Defines the capabilities of the VMware agents by product versions. This file is
optional and might not be supported by all management systems.
VMWARE-CIMOM-MIB.mib
Defines variables and trap types used to report on the state of the CIM Object
Management subsystem.
VMWARE-ENV-MIB.mib
Defines 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. Defines OIDs that have been
made obsolete to maintain backward compatibility with earlier versions of
ESX/ESXi. Includes variables formerly defined in the files VMWARE-TRAPS-
MIB.mib and VMWARE-VMKERNEL-MIB.mib.
VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB.mib
Defines OIDs to uniquely identify each SNMP agent on each VMware
platform by name, version, and build platform.
VMWARE-RESOURCES-MIB.mib
Defines 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 file is obsolete. Use the SNMPv2-MIB to
obtain information from sysDescr.0 and sysObjec ID.0.
VMWARE-TC-MIB.mib
Defines common textual conventions used by VMware MIB files.
VMWARE-VC-EVENTS-MIB.mib
Defines traps sent by vCenter Server. Load this file if you use vCenter Server
to send traps.
VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB.mib
Defines variables for reporting information about virtual machines, including
virtual machine traps.
The table Other MIB Files lists MIB files included in the VMware MIB files package that are not created by
VMware. These can be used with the VMware MIB files to provide additional information.
Table 9‑2. Other MIB Files
MIB File Description
ENTITY-MIB.mib
Allows the description of relationships between physical
entities and logical entities managed by the same SNMP
agent. See RFC 4133 for more information.
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.mib
Defines objects that are useful for managing host
computers.
HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES.mib
Defines storage, device, and filesystem types for use with
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.mib.
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