ESX Servers not in VMware ESX Servers group

We don't have any ESX 2.X in our lab anymore, so I'm going to ping someone on the Dell Virtualization Engineering team to see if they have any clues.

I didn't see anything in the docs that says "supports ESX 3.x and higher", so I'm assuming it should work. Maybe a MIB issue. Did you try all these steps for troubleshooting ?
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Check the management station and the VMware ESX Server settings.

Management station settings:

• Unblock firewall for the SNMP service.

• Ensure that the community name is set correctly.

• Ensure that the Accept SNMP packet from any host or Accept SNMP packet from this host is set with the VMware ESX Server.

• Ensure that the SNMP and the SNMP trap services are running.

VMware ESX Server settings:

• Unblock firewall for the SNMP service.

• Ensure /etc/snmpd.conf is set correctly on the host.

trapcommunity

trapsink

• Ensure that the path to the VMware SNMP agent is set and is valid on the host.

dlmod SNMPESX /usr/lib/vmware/snmp/libSNMPESX.so

• Ensure that the VMware MIBs are in the expected path on the host, or copy the MIB from cp /usr/lib/vmware/snmp/mibs/*.mib to /usr/share/snmp/mibs/

• Ensure that the SNMP and the VMware services are running correctly by using the following commands:

service snmpd status

service snmpd start

service mgmt-vmware status

service mgmt-vmware start

• Run the following command to start the hosted service of VMware and to view the list of guest devices that are registered with the host device:

vmware-cmd –l
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ITA can see them in "Servers" so there is communication, we'll see what Bala has to say.

I was able to do everything except the firewall part. The documented step for opening the firewall up for SNMP (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/installing_dell_openmanage_on_esx.pdf) does not work on my servers. I'm assuming this is a 3.x only feature. The interface on 2.5.4 / 2.5.5 doesn't give me much information, unlike 3.x. I basically have a choice between high, medium, and low. None of these options list SNMP.

There might be a way to look closer, but I am not linux savvy. I'm going to continue looking for a way to see how to allow SNMP traffic unless you have that information.

No. That command does not work. Running that through the console results in a "invalid command" error.

I also ran the SNMP connectivity test and it tells me:
IP Address Used :
Result :
The SNMP write request has failed for Set Community names -
Connected using the Get Community Names -
Connected to the agent software(s) - [cminventorysnmp, NA], [mib2, NA], [OpenManage Server Agent, 5.6.0], [storagemgmt, NA]
Time of Execution : Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:41:05 PM EDT

I'm assuming this has something to do with the firewall?

Does the esxcfg-firewall cmd work ? ie .. "esxcfg-firewall -o 162,tcp,in,snmp"

And what about this ? ...
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Downgrade the IPMI
version to 35.13
using the
OpenManage scripts:
Go into the
OpenManage install
scripts directory and
execute the
command
./srvadminopenipmi.
sh
install-force.

Scott,

I was able to confirm that esxcfg-firewall does not exist in 2.5.4 / 2.5.5. It was introduced as part of ESX 3. Just to test I attempted to telnet on both SNMP ports (161/162) and was unable to connect. If the functionality I'm looking for requires read-write SNMP then that most likely explains why these servers are not in the correct group.