March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
13h 51m
English
Content preview from VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
SNMP
ESXi hosts give all of the support for SNMP agents to run on the ESXi host, and all NSX Virtual Switch instances or vSphere Distributed Switch instances. SNMP network MIBs give standards-based visibility into NSX Virtual Switch objects.
SNMP network monitoring has been advanced to give support for SNMPv3, support for IEEE/IETF networking MIBs for standard Layer 2 information monitoring, and Layer 3 and higher protocol (TCP/UDP) MIB support. The following are some key parameters regarding virtual switches that are available through standard MIBs:
- Port state (up or down) per virtual switch (vSphere standard switch, vSphere Distributed Switch)
- Traffic counters per port, per VLAN
- LAG data for network adapter teaming details
- LLDP information ...