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A lot shorter then my other post. But again a problem that other people might experiencing as well (hope this is helping others as well).

Ive added a couple of VMware Machines to my Zenoss and configured SNMP on Vmware to send traps to my Zenoss. Traps are send/received just fine but showing up in my events console unreadable because the vmware mibs are missing.

Tip: You can download a pack of all Vmware Mibs from the Vmware site in the download section, but you need an account to download them.

Ive download the Mibs and I tried to install them using the gui (Advanced > MIBs > Add Mib from desktop (Plus Sign bottom right)).

When I tried to install the first Vmware Mib (VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB.mib) the job gave me this:
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2015-03-16 17:00:12,825 INFO zen.Job: Spawning subprocess: /opt/zenoss/bin/zenmib run /opt/zenoss/var/ext/uploadedMIBs/VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB.mib --path=/
2015-03-16 17:00:17,378 INFO zen.ZenMib: Found 1 MIBs to import.
2015-03-16 17:00:17,378 WARNING zen.ZenMib: Unable to find a file that defines SNMPv2-CONF
2015-03-16 17:00:17,378 WARNING zen.ZenMib: Unable to find a file that defines VMWARE-ENV-MIB
2015-03-16 17:00:17,378 WARNING zen.ZenMib: Unable to find a file that defines SNMPv2-SMI
2015-03-16 17:00:17,378 WARNING zen.ZenMib: Unable to find a file that defines VMWARE-TC-MIB
2015-03-16 17:00:17,378 WARNING zen.ZenMib: Unable to find a file that defines VMWARE-ROOT-MIB
2015-03-16 17:00:17,378 WARNING zen.ZenMib: Unable to find a file that defines SNMPv2-TC
2015-03-16 17:00:17,876 INFO zen.ZenMib: Parsed 0 nodes and 0 notifications from VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB
2015-03-16 17:00:17,877 INFO zen.ZenMib: Loaded MIB VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB into the DMD
2015-03-16 17:00:17,878 INFO zen.ZenMib: Loaded 1 MIB file(s)
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Okay my bad, there are a couple of dependencies. The funny part was that the Mib shows up in the gui but is completely empty. So I tried to install the other Mibs (SNMPv2-Conf, SNMPV2-SMI) and this happened.

Install SNMPv2-CONF the first time:
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2015-03-16 17:03:58,465 INFO zen.Job: Starting job ecdb4883-da91-4e00-b964-8d2e2393f423 (Products.Jobber.jobs.SubprocessJob)
2015-03-16 17:03:58,466 INFO zen.Job: Spawning subprocess: /opt/zenoss/bin/zenmib run /opt/zenoss/var/ext/uploadedMIBs/SNMPv2-CONF.mib --path=/
2015-03-16 17:04:03,074 INFO zen.ZenMib: Found 1 MIBs to import.
2015-03-16 17:04:03,074 WARNING zen.ZenMib: Unable to find a file that defines SNMPv2-SMI
2015-03-16 17:04:03,499 INFO zen.ZenMib: Parsed 0 nodes and 0 notifications from SNMPv2-CONF
2015-03-16 17:04:03,501 INFO zen.ZenMib: Loaded MIB SNMPv2-CONF into the DMD
2015-03-16 17:04:03,501 INFO zen.ZenMib: Loaded 1 MIB file(s)
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Install SNMPv2-SMI:
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2015-03-16 17:02:55,265 INFO zen.Job: Starting job abab7be4-d4ac-4565-95c1-ed92b7975345 (Products.Jobber.jobs.SubprocessJob)
2015-03-16 17:02:55,279 INFO zen.Job: Spawning subprocess: /opt/zenoss/bin/zenmib run /opt/zenoss/var/ext/uploadedMIBs/SNMPv2-SMI.mib --path=/
2015-03-16 17:02:59,866 INFO zen.ZenMib: Found 1 MIBs to import.
2015-03-16 17:03:00,602 INFO zen.ZenMib: Parsed 16 nodes and 0 notifications from SNMPv2-SMI
2015-03-16 17:03:00,603 INFO zen.ZenMib: Loaded MIB SNMPv2-SMI into the DMD
2015-03-16 17:03:00,603 INFO zen.ZenMib: Loaded 1 MIB file(s)
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Install SNMPv2-CONF the second time:
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2015-03-16 17:03:58,465 INFO zen.Job: Starting job ecdb4883-da91-4e00-b964-8d2e2393f423 (Products.Jobber.jobs.SubprocessJob)
2015-03-16 17:03:58,466 INFO zen.Job: Spawning subprocess: /opt/zenoss/bin/zenmib run /opt/zenoss/var/ext/uploadedMIBs/SNMPv2-CONF.mib --path=/
2015-03-16 17:04:03,074 INFO zen.ZenMib: Found 1 MIBs to import.
2015-03-16 17:04:03,074 WARNING zen.ZenMib: Unable to find a file that defines SNMPv2-SMI
2015-03-16 17:04:03,499 INFO zen.ZenMib: Parsed 0 nodes and 0 notifications from SNMPv2-CONF
2015-03-16 17:04:03,501 INFO zen.ZenMib: Loaded MIB SNMPv2-CONF into the DMD
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Well I tried uploading all Vmware mibs a couple of times but none of them seem to work and they are all pointing at each other as dependency (Something like the chicken and the egg, I think).

The behavior is the same with almost all the mibs. They give an error about missing mibs but they do show up completely empty in the gui.

Does anybody has any experience with importing the vmware (or other) mibs in Zenoss 5.0

Btw: Little off topic but I do hope there is coming community Vmware zenpack soon just with some basics Mem, CPU, Guest counts and Vmware Mibs. The filesystem and Interfaces are already working if you add the Vmware machine under infrastructure > servers > Linux. This would be great!

Subject:	coming soon? nah.
Author:	Andrew Kirch
Posted:	2015-03-17 18:16

coming soon nah.
here now yep.
http://wiki.zenoss.org/ZenPack:VMware_ESXi_Monitor

I think this will make life much easier for you :)

Andrew Kirch

akirch@gvit.com

Need Zenoss support, consulting or custom development Look no further. Email or PM me!

Ready for Distributed Topology (collectors) for Zenoss 5 Coming May 1st from GoVanguard

Subject:	Nice
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-03-18 01:07

Hi Trelane,

Missed the Vmware Zenpack, just came out a 1.5 month ago. Will test this on Zenoss 5.0 and post the results in a couple of days.

Thanks,
Larve

Subject:	Hey,
Author:	Matt
Posted:	2015-03-18 09:44

Hey,

I've also updated the installation instructions on the wiki page.

Please follow them and let me know how it goes.

Thanks.

Subject:	Hi Matze,
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-03-19 01:09

Hi Matze,

Thats perfect!

Tonight Ill have the time to test this. Will post the results.

Thanks a lot,
Larve

Subject:	Zenoss 5.0 / Importing (Vmware) Mibs
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-03-17 04:33

Zenoss 5.0 / Importing (Vmware) Mibs