Pre-requisites

The following are the pre-requisites for an ESX server discovery and monitoring:

• VMware SNMP agent should be enabled on the ESX server.

• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) should be enabled on both the ESX server and the physical switch.

• DNS server should have an entry mapping the ESX server name to its IP address.

• Do not enable the Net-SNMP Agent. Enable only the VMware SNMP Agent. If the proxy VMware SNMP Agent / Net SNMP Agent is enabled, the ESX server will be classified as a Linux Host and is treated like any other Linux host.