EMC Ionix: Field Certification of VMWare ESXi 4.0

Abstract:

The standard management protocol for managing systems is Simple Network Management Protocol. Enterprise and Managed Services vendors must support SNMP to be considered a player in the data center. VMWare ESXi offers SNMP capabilities, but tools such as EMC Ionix ESM requires a field certification in order to manage the basic capabilities.

Field Certification:

The following commands are used to perform the field certification:

sun9999/root# cd /opt/InCharge8/IP/smarts/bin
sun9999/root# sm_edit conf/discovery/oid2type_Field.conf

The following entry should be added, in order to perform the field certification:

# VMware 4 ESX server (vSphere )
.1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.1 {
TYPE = Host
VENDOR = VMWare
MODEL = ESX4.0
CERTIFICATION = CERTIFIED
CONT = Generic-MIB2
HOSTRESRCS = MIB2

INSTRUMENTATION:
Disk-Fault = HostResources:DeviceID
FileSystem-Performance = HostResources:DeviceID
CPU/Memory = HostResources:DeviceID
Interface-Fault = MIB2
Interface-Performance = MIB2
}