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Danila Ladner
Asked: 2013-08-23 06:14:07 +0800 CST

DELL OpenManage 7.3 on ESXi5.1

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I installed Dell OpenManage 7.3 VIB on ESXi5.1 host. I assumed that VIB will load all DELL specific MIBs into OS. I enabled snmpd on that host as well, but when I am doing "snmpwalk" or "snmpget" I do not get information on Dell specific OIDs

The source of the VIB:

DELL OpenManage 7.3 VIB

The output i get:

nmpget -v2c -c public myesxi.domain.com 1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.300.10.1.8.1

SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.674.10892.1.300.10.1.8.1 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID

I do get OIDs from VMWare stack, but not the Dell ones. Eventually I want to use nagios plugin "check_openmanage" but it apparently gives me an error as it cannot query Dell OID's

Am I missing something?

EDIT: I see the package is installed:

# esxcli software vib list | grep -i "OpenManage"
OpenManage                     7.3-0000                              Dell      PartnerSupported  2013-08-21
vmware-esxi

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I don't think you can. It says that the only SNMP support is for sending traps, not for querying.

    This configuration is only for sending SNMP traps to OpenManage Essentials. SNMP is not used for discovery. WS-MAN is the only protocol ESXi 5 supports.

    Your monitoring tool will need to speak WS-MAN - Dell OME is one such tool. I am too lazy to look up Nagios' support for WS-MAN right now.

    The documentation for check_openmanage seems to agree with me.

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  2. As others have mentioned, SNMP hardware polling doesn't work with OMSA on ESXi so you can't use check_openmanage, but since your goal is hardware monitoring, you might look at check_esxi_hardware.py plugin (for Dell, HP, IBM). It works exactly as advertised on ESXi 5.1 with OMSA 7.3 and has very similar output to check_openmanage.

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  3. To connect to the 7.3 VIB from your windows workstation you are going to want this, courtesy of Dell India(only Dell-site who would list it), OpenManage Server Administrator Version 7.3 http://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER01679890M/1/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WIN-7.3.0-350_A00.exe

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