I am not a VMware expert. I have been using SAM for a couple of years to monitor the hardware health on our physical servers. We now have a single VMware host and I would like to use SAM to monitor its hardware health. SAM version 5.5. ESXI version 5.1. The server is a Dell PE R720
I am using VCenter to manage the host (I'm not sure if that matters). Steps I have taken to try to get this to work:
I have enabled SNMP on the host.
Verified that It appears to be open on the firewall.
I have setup the iDRAC.
I have downloaded and installed the Dell OpenManage VMware appliance.
I am not sure if I should be polling the address of the VCenter server, the host, the OpenManage Appliance, or the iDRAC card. I've tried all of them. I can poll the iDRAC card but cannot get the hardware health status. If I poll for VMware, it gives me the message "Test Failed. Cannot login with selected vCenter or ESX credential". I am using root.
Can anyone point me to a document with some specific instructions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Rob