How do I monitor physical Disks and other hardware on Dell and HP Servers running VMWare from NPM?

I'm trying to set up Solarwinds NPM to monitor my HP and Dell servers that are running VMWare. I have iDRAC/ILO devices added to Solarwinds via SNMP but this still dowsn't show the hardware health information of the server? We are replacing PRTG with Solarwinds and PRTG showed this information without a problem via the ILO or iDRAC monitoring through SNMP but in Solarwinds none of these hardware options show up when I list resources to monitor? I'm hoping I've overlooked something in the setup somehow to get this working as it is fairly critical to be able to monitor the hardware health of the servers?

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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Fred.Loucks

1) Check out website https://mibs.observium.org/. Look for your server model and if an OID exists for the specific part/item you want to monitor. Use UDT or Device Studio and create a poller for what you want to monitor.

2) Do you have the VMAN module for SolarWinds? Load the virtual server into VMAN (it integrates into "add node" on NPM). Choose the virtual server option when creating node. Make sure you have the proper service account created and applied to the server. What your looking for should pull automatically (you are not using SNMPv3, you'll be using a service account.)