Description

This connector enables disk monitoring for ESX servers v4 and higher through discrete IPMI sensors.

Connector file name: MS_HW_VMwareESXiDisksIPMI.hdf

This connector is superseded by:

• MS_HW_Director5Linux.hdf
• MS_HW_Director52Linux.hdf
• MS_HW_Director52ServeRAIDLinux.hdf
• MS_HW_VMwareESXiDisksStorage.hdf
• MS_HW_Director61Linux.hdf
• MS_HW_HPInsightwbem.hdf
• MS_HW_DellOpenManage.hdf
• MS_HW_CpMgServNT.hdf
• MS_HW_ServerviewWBEM.hdf

Target

Typical platform: VMware ESXi

Operating systems: Out-of-Band, Linux

Prerequisites

Leverages: WBEM

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Connector Activation Criteria

The VMware ESXi - Disks (IPMI) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/cimv2
  • WQL Query: SELECT MajorVersion FROM VMware_HypervisorSoftwareIdentity
  • Result contains: ^[1-9][0-9]\|[4-9] (regex)
• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/cimv2
  • WQL Query: SELECT IpmiSensorType,SensorType,CurrentState FROM OMC_DiscreteSensor
  • Result contains: ^13;11;Assert; (regex)