ESXi 5.1 SNMP Service Starting Failure

When you look up how to change the SNMP community for ESXi 5.1, VMWare has an article that displays the command to change the community of the SNMP service via the esxcli command. But when you attempt to actually start the service in the GUI, you get this error: This leads to an article by VMWare about […]


Installing Cacti in CentOS 6.2 Part 2: GUI, Plugins, Host Monitoring, Email Alerts

First thing your going to do since the last post is log into the fresh cacti server. This can be achieved by going to http://(serverIP or FQDN)/cacti From here, you will get the welcome/setup screen: This just gives you some basic info that will help you understand what you are about to do. Just press […]


Getting SNMP Rolling on XENSERVER 6

So I’ve been in need of getting SNMP installed on XenServer 6- its pretty simple: login to box vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables Put in before your deny all clause -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m udp -p udp –dport 161 -j ACCEPT service iptables restart vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf Modify this config to reflect what you need. service […]