Hi All,
I thougnt I'd post the question here in case anyone can help or has the same query.
The site I am working on is looking at VMAN, NPM and SAM as a base product set. This particular query is around VMware vCenter as well as ESXi polling.
I have added a vCenter Appliance as a monitored Node using Status Only: ICMP and Poll for VMware Providing creds.
When I clicked through the vCenter Node to get to an ESXi host, it was unmanaged to I added this in the same way. The wizard stated that I was polling the ESXi host via the vCenter and that I should use Status Only: ICMP as the polling method.
From what I understand, if I want to view VM interfaces stats (i.e. virtual NICS) using an Agent this does not count against my NPM interface count, which is great.
What I'm unclear about is how I monitor network interfaces on the ESXi hosts themselves. From what I can see, this isn't done via vCenter so I assume I would need to enable SNMP in order to get this information, which goes against the Add Node wizard guidance.
On this point also, if I want the vCenter to be able to send SNMPv3 traps to Orion, presumably I need to add it as an SNMPv3 managed host?
Unless I'm missing something, I can't see how ESXi interface statistics get monitored via any other means than SNMP.
Has anyone got any more info on this that might help?
Many thanks!
M
