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How to add SNMP monitoring of the VMWARE 5.5 Virtual Server Appliance

cfizz34

Anyone know how to add a VMware 5.5 VSA to SAM for SNMP monitoring?

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kevnet

Yeah, you need to use vCLI and issue a few commands to add servers that are allowed to poll as well as send traps to. Please don't forget to mark this as a solution!

This link will walk you through the config. 5.5 is the same as 5.1.

VMware vSphere 5.1

The link shows how to install vCLI on Linux

VMware vSphere 5.1

This like is for the 5.5 vMA virtual appliance that already has vCLI built in.

VMware vSphere 5: Private Cloud Computing, Server and Data Center Virtualization

cfizz34

Still having issues, I get this.

PowerCLI C:\windows\system32> Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $srv -Name snmp.*

Get-AdvancedSetting : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Entity'. The argument is null or empty

. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and then try the command again.

At line:1 char:28

+ Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity <<<< $srv -Name snmp.*

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Get-AdvancedSetting], ParameterBindingValidationEx

ception

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets

.Commands.GetAdvancedSetting

aLTeReGo

You can add additional software such as SNMP to monitor the VCSA. Adding software can be done with the “Yet another Setup Tool” (YAST)