VMWARE-ESX-AGENTCAP-MIB

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Organization: VMware, Inc

Last Updated: 2015-01-12

Category: VMware Virtualization

Description: Defines VMware ESX SNMP agent capabilities, supported MIB groups, and compliance statements.

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What Is VMWARE-ESX-AGENTCAP-MIB?

VMWARE-ESX-AGENTCAP-MIB is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module for VMware ESX/ESXi, documenting which SNMP MIB groups and object variations are supported by the VMware ESX SNMP agent across different ESX releases. It does not define its own management objects with runtime values; instead it declares compliance/capability statements (vmwEsxCapability) tied to specific ESX software versions. As such it provides no direct hardware or software status data itself, but is used by management systems to determine which host/VM/hardware-status MIB objects from other VMware MIBs a given ESX host version actually implements. It is entirely dependent on the underlying VMware MIBs it profiles, such as host resource and virtual machine MIBs, rather than standing alone. It is used during ESX host onboarding into an NMS or SNMP monitoring tool to confirm supported capability sets per software release. Engineers can download the VMWARE-ESX-AGENTCAP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in VMWARE-ESX-AGENTCAP-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

VMware ESX/ESXi hypervisor host

Monitoring Examples

This is a conformance/AGENT-CAPABILITIES module with no runtime monitoring objects of its own; vmwEsxCapability simply declares, per ESX release, which MIB groups the SNMP agent supports, so there is no monitoring scenario to describe here.

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-CONF

AGENT-CAPABILITIES

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY

From VMWARE-ROOT-MIB

vmwareAgentCapabilities

OBJECT-IDENTITY

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Description
vmwAgentCapabilityMIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70.1	This module defines agent capabilities for deployed VMware ESX agents by release.
vmwEsxCapability	1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70.1.1
vmwESX40x	1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70.1.1.1	Release 4.0.x for VMware ESX. The SNMP agent is now part of the hostd process
vmwESX41x	1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70.1.1.2	Release 4.1.x for VMware ESX, the SNMP agent is now a subsystem in the hostd process on ESXi.
vmwESX50x	1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70.1.1.3	Release 5.0.x for VMware ESXi. The SNMPv1/v2c agent is a subsystem in the hostd process
vmwESX51x	1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70.1.1.4	Release 5.1.x for VMware ESXi supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 with a stand-alone snmpd process. This agent supports read-only protocol operations. This implies that configuring the SNMPv3 Agent can not be done via SET operations. Hence IETF standard SNMPv3 agent configuration mibs are not provided. SNMPv3 protocol is fully supported once configured via the CLI command interface (esxcli system snmp) command set or host profiles. Lastly this SNMP agent provides one read-only view of the entire system to which all SNMPv3 users configured are assigned.
vmwESX55	1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70.1.1.5	Release 5.5 for VMware ESXi supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 with a stand-alone snmpd process. This release features support for monitoring multiple IP Stacks. The standard IP-MIB, UDP-MIB, and TCP-MIB may be used with a context set to the IP Stack Name as found in ENTITY-MIB entLogicalTable or via command: esxcli network ip netstack list An example using net-snmp's snmpwalk command:: snmpwalk -v2c -n defaultTcpipStack ip No vDR instrumentation is yet available. This agent supports read-only protocol operations. This implies that configuring the SNMPv3 Agent can not be done via SET operations. Hence IETF standard SNMPv3 agent configuration mibs are not provided. The SNMPv3 protocol is fully supported once configured via the CLI command interface (esxcli system snmp) command set or vCenter Server host profiles. Lastly this SNMP agent provides one read-only view of the entire system to which all SNMPv3 users configured are assigned.
vmwESX60x	1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70.1.1.10	Release 6.0 for VMware ESXi supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 with a stand-alone snmpd process. Only Minor changes and bug fixes in this release of the SNMP Agent. No vDR instrumentation is yet available. This agent supports read-only protocol operations. This implies that configuring the SNMPv3 Agent can not be done via SET operations. Hence IETF standard SNMPv3 agent configuration mibs are not provided. The SNMPv3 protocol is fully supported once configured via the CLI command interface (esxcli system snmp) command set or vCenter Server host profiles. Lastly this SNMP agent provides one read-only view of the entire system to which all SNMPv3 users configured are assigned.

RFC description

Defines SNMP agent capabilities and feature support across VMware ESXi releases from 4.0 to 6.0 versions.

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What Is VMWARE-ESX-AGENTCAP-MIB?

Supported Devices

Monitoring Examples

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