Data Collection Report on ESX 2.51 Servers - ESX 2.51 in SIM

[Dirk Holzwarth]

Hello,
after a few trys, we could manage our ESX2.51 with the SIM agents v. 7.2 in our SIM 4.2 SP1 system. We could now connect to the systemhomepage and can have the informations about discspace, cpu load, etc. there. Unfortunately, we couldn't see this informations in the Data Collection Report. A Windows2000 server showes all of this informations in the report (please see attachmet).
Now two questions about this:
1. Is this a forgotten feature in the Agents or do we something wrong?
2. Is there any good descriptions, how the agents are to installed (we did it more like plug and pray)

Thanks in advance

[David Claypool · Accepted solution]

By default, initial data collection occurs at discovery and is then maintained through the Bi-Weekly Data Collection task. If your ESX server was discovered prior to the agent install then there was no real data to collect at the time. Try running the data collection task manually to see if it gets picked up now.

If not, you probably have a mismatch with SNMP community strings.