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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

You're reading from  VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462787
Pages 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
Profile icon Daniel Langenhan

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration 3. Distributed Design 4. Programming Skills 5. Visual Programming 6. Advanced Programming 7. Interacting with Orchestrator 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working 9. Essential Plugins 10. Built-in Plugins 11. Additional Plugins 12. Working with vSphere 13. Working with vRealize Automation

Working with SNMP


This recipe centers on SNMP. Here, you will learn how to use Orchestrator to receive SNMP traps from vCenter/ESXi and use them to trigger workflows.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need an SNMP source. We will use vCenter and ESXi hosts as SNMP sources.

To prepare vCenter and ESXi servers to send or receive SNMP messages, refer to the There's more... section of this recipe.

How to do it...

We will split this recipe into configuring and using SNMP with Orchestrator.

Configuring SNMP devices

To configure Orchestrator to send or receive SNMP messages from SNMP devices, follow these steps for each SNMP device:

  1. In Device address, enter the IP or FQDN of the device you want to send or receive SNMP messages to/from.

  2. In the Orchestrator Client, start the workflow by navigating to Library | SNMP | Device Management | Register an SNMP device.

    • Name is just a string to identify the SNMP device in the inventory.

  3. The Advanced function is the configuration that is used to send SNMP messages....

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