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ESX v4.1

Lt.Ripley over 12 years ago

Our server team is upgrading to ESX v4.1. So far, all that is visible on the ESX hosts are the interface tables (there's no host disk information). Is the Virtualization Manager component necessary to properly monitor this version of ESX?

We've tried monitoring via Virtual Centre as well but we still cannot get anything other than rudimentary ESX host information. Guest information registers without issue.

0 bshopp over 12 years ago

I assume you mean with Orion you are doing this correct? Are you just monitoring with SNMP or are you also specifying the VMWare API credential information?
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0 Lt.Ripley over 12 years ago in reply to bshopp

Sorry, I should have confirmed, we're running NPM v10.1.2, APM v4.0, with an ESX credential (that at one point was given admin to see if it was a permissions issue).
Monitoring ESX 3.5 worked, then there was an upgrade to v4.0 and so started our problems. We now have one single ESX v4.0 server that we can see all resources on, but it's scheduled to be rebuilt to v4.1 right away. No other ESX hosts in the environment show anything beyond an interface table (whether monitoring via a vCentre server or the ESX hosts themselves).
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0 Lt.Ripley over 12 years ago in reply to Lt.Ripley

I contacted support to see if there was something we could do about not properly reading the ESX host information. They said ESX v4.0 and higher no longer displays any disk information in SNMP and this is why we can't see it. I just tried to pursue this since we do have it working on one ESX v4.0 server. Shall likely remain a mystery.
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0 jspanitz over 12 years ago in reply to Lt.Ripley

Hmm, I think we had (have?) the same issue, but I don't have access to the console right now.
I believe it was due to one host having been monitored via SNMP before we moved to the API and the vSphere method. Does that perhaps mirror why your one host shows disk details?
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