Now that you are on or you have just started using VMware ESXi 6 and would like to do some monitoring via SNMP here is a way to enable this and set the community string in the process. By default, remote clients are prevented from accessing services on host, unless configured to start automatically. While […]
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Here are some quick and simple steps to upgrade your OpenMediaVault (OMV) to the latest version; OMV 1.0 (Kralizec). SSH into your OpenMediaVault server; in my case I am running OMV 0.5 and run the following command: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && omv-update Then type the following command: omv-release-upgrade Once completed you can either […]
So you want to enable SNMP on ESXi 5 and finding a lot on Google and Bing regarding using the vicfg- command run in the CLI, only to find out that the command doesn’t exist in your install of ESXi5? Well you have come to the right place. I enabled SNMP and this is how: […]
Looking to enable SNMP to do some external monitoring on my ESXi Boxen. I took a quick dive into the CLI and found a way to do this. Using our friend putty, I connected to my ESXi host via SSH. I then changed directory to the /etc/vmware/ folder: ~ # cd /etc/vmware/ ESXi 5 doesn’t […]