All MIBs › VMWARE-ROOT-MIB
Organization: VMware, Inc
Last Updated: 2016-01-02
Category: Textual Conventions and Registries
Description: Defines the top-level VMware SNMP OID tree (enterprises.6876) and its primary subtrees, serving as the root for all other VMware MIBs.
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What Is VMWARE-ROOT-MIB?
VMWARE-ROOT-MIB is VMware's root SNMP module, anchoring the enterprise OID tree at enterprises.6876 and defining the primary subtrees under which all other VMware MIB modules register. It is a pure structural/registration module and exposes no interface, environmental, performance, or fault data on its own. Administrators commonly open VMWARE-ROOT-MIB in a MIB Browser simply to confirm this enterprises.6876 registration point before navigating into the functional VMware modules. Hardware and software status monitoring for VMware environments -- host uptime, CPU/memory utilization, guest state, hardware sensor health -- is carried out entirely by the VMware MIB modules registered beneath this root, not by the root itself. It depends only on the standard SNMPv2-SMI enterprise-registration convention, and it is deployed as the namespace foundation wherever VMware ESXi hosts or vCenter-managed environments expose SNMP management data.
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Supported Devices
- VMware product line, entire range (ESXi hosts and vCenter-managed environments) (base enterprise OID registration, no data objects)
Monitoring Examples
This module defines no sample objects and contains no tables or scalars of its own, being purely a root/namespace MIB. An administrator's MIB browser uses it only to resolve the VMware OID prefix (enterprises.6876) before navigating into the actual host or virtual-machine status MIBs registered underneath. No monitoring scenario is fabricated since there is no runtime data here to poll.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-IDENTITY | |
| enterprises |
OIDs
RFC description
VMware enterprise root SMI defining the OID structure for VMware virtual infrastructure and hypervisor management.
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