All MIBs › VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB
Organization: VMware, Inc
Last Updated: 2015-07-17
Category: Textual Conventions and Registries
Description:
Assigns SNMP object identifiers to specific VMware products, including ESXi (vmwESX) and vCenter Server (vmwVC).
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
From VMWARE-ROOT-MIB
| vmwOID | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
| vmwProductSpecific | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
What Is VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB?
VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB is a VMware-authored MIB module whose sole purpose is to define the OID identifiers returned as sysObjectID by SNMP agents running on specific VMware products, such as vmwESX (ESXi hosts), vmwVC (vCenter Server), vmwDVS (Distributed Virtual Switch), vmwServer, vmwVCOps, and vmwGenericAppliance. It does not define any runtime data objects, counters, or traps of its own; it is purely an identification/registration module used so a management station can tell which VMware product an agent belongs to. Consequently it has no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status such as uptime, CPU/memory load, or fault conditions — that data comes from other VMware or standard MIBs (or more commonly from the vSphere API) once the product has been identified via this MIB's OIDs. It depends only on the base SNMPv2-SMI enterprise-registration conventions and on SNMPv2-MIB's sysObjectID object to be meaningful. It is referenced whenever an SNMP management station polls sysObjectID against an ESXi host, vCenter Server, or other VMware appliance to determine product identity for inventory or polling-profile selection. Keeping a VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB reference on hand is useful for quickly matching a polled sysObjectID value to the correct VMware product family during inventory discovery.
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Supported Devices
- VMware product family, entire range (ESXi, vCenter, DVS, Server, vCOps, generic appliance) (sysObjectID registration, no data objects)
Monitoring Examples
This module defines only product-identification OIDs (vmwESX, vmwVC, vmwDVS, vmwServer, vmwVCOps, vmwGenericAppliance) and carries no runtime monitoring objects, so there is no polling-for-anomaly scenario to describe; a management station would instead read sysObjectID from an agent and match it against these OIDs (e.g., vmwESX) purely to identify that the agent is running on an ESXi host before applying VMware-specific monitoring elsewhere.
OIDs
| OID symbolic | OID numeric | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vmwESX | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.1 | |||
| vmwDVS | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.2 | |||
| vmwVC | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.3 | |||
| vmwServer | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.4 | |||
| vmwVCOps | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.5 | |||
| vmwGenericAppliance | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.6 | |||
| vmwEmbeddedVirtualCenterAppliance | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.7 | |||
| vmwInfrastructureAppliance | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.8 | |||
| vmwManagementAppliance | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.9 | |||
| vmwNSX | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.10 | |||
| vmwProducts | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.11 | This MIB module provides the OID identifiers which are returned from SNMPv2-MIB sysObjectId for agents in specific VMware products. | ||
| oidESX | 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.60.1 |
RFC description
Defines product-specific SNMP object identifiers for VMware products such as ESXi (vmwESX) and vCenter Server (vmwVC).
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