Monitoring Virtual NICs-VMware ESX

Question

Has anybody been able to get the monitoring of virtual NICS (i.e. vmnic0, vmnic1, etc) on a VMWare ESX host working with NPM?  They get discovered but show a staus of red/down even though they are active.  We would like to see the net traffic of each individual virtual node to see how the network resources are being utilized.
Thanks in advance,
Ron

cbulleri · Answer

Thought I would update this post with an answare to this issue. It has to do with the Updates apply to the ESX server . We are running 4 servers and they all have ver. 3.0.1 but with different levels of patches. Those that are patch up to 32039 are not showing any activity on the NIC and the performance graphs show incorrectly. While servers running 77862 or newer are work fine.

rob.borias · Answer

Same here under 9.0 sp2 I can see all virtual nics up and running.

FormerMember · Answer

folks,

maybe you should raise a support request? I can monitor the virtual nics on our Orion install and see utilization so maybe theres something wrong with yours?

rgds

Dave