Monitoring VMware ESX servers
The monitoring of VMware, or any other kind of virtualization servers, is as important as the guests running on it. Unlike with normal systems, performance problems on the virtualization hosts will affect many more systems and applications, therefore knowing the current, past, and possible future state of the host's performance is of great importance.
Preparing the SNMP access for VMware ESXi 6/6.5
To setup SNMP access on a VMware ESXi server, you'll need to have the SSH server enabled. On previous versions (VMWare ESXi 3.5 and Version 4), enabling the SNMP service was done through the VMware SDK. Later versions allow you to enable the SNMP service using the ESXCLI on the VMware host itself. If you have physical access to the VMware ESXi server, you do not need the SSH service to be enabled.
Time for action - enabling SSH access on a ESXi 6/6.5 server
The following steps will guide your through the process of enabling the SSH access on your VMware server:
- Log in...
