ESX 2,5 SNMP problems

[Dan White_1]

I am having data collection issues on all my ESX servers. I have tried every combination of SNMP settings to no avail.

The top of my SNMP config file looks like:

# Following entries were added by HP Insight Management Agents at
# Tue Apr 4 09:23:28 MDT 2006
rwcommunity [my write string] 127.0.0.1
rocommunity [my read string] 127.0.0.1
rwcommunity [my write string] [SIM IP]
rocommunity [my read string] [SIM IP]
trapcommunity [my read string]
trapsink [SIM IP] [my read string]
syscontact Root (configure /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf)
syslocation Unknown (edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf)

with these settings I can send a trap to SIM but I still get no data collection.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan

[Rob Buxton · Accepted solution]

In the settings properties (click on Server name -> Tools & links tab -> System protocol Settings) you could try using WBEM and using a suitable account / password on the Server for the WBEM access.

[Dan White_1]

Thanks for the tip Rob but it doesn't seem to work. When I set the webm to root with teh root password I get the following error during data collection:

"The data collection on this device was aborted due to a timeout or it was abruptly stopped."

Is there someting that I am missing? I have ~200 Windows servers in SIM. It's only the ESX servers giving me trouble.

Thanks,

Dan

[Mark McConnell]

Dan,

I had similar problems in windows. My problem revolved around a setting that limited which hosts can send SNMP requests. I was only allowing the local host on some servers. I am not sure what the setting would be on ESX, but you might want to verify that the hosts accepts SNMP requests from your CMC.

[Rob Buxton]

Dan,
Have you installed the HP Management Agents for ESX?
They should allow data collection, they'd use the same kind of trust model you have for the rest of the Servers.
see;
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locOsCat/1122.html

[Graham King]

Have you restarted the SNMP subsystem after changing the configuration file?

[Dan White_1]

I do have the agents for ESX installed. As for restarting the SNMP subsystem, I restarted the agents. Will that not restart SNMP as well?

[Dan White_1]

I found that if I increase the timeout in SIM for collection from 5 seconds to 15 it works as expected. Thank you all for the help. Points assigned

Thanks,

Dan