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.
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.
We will split this recipe into configuring and using SNMP with Orchestrator.
To configure Orchestrator to send or receive SNMP messages from SNMP devices, follow these steps for each SNMP device:
In the Orchestrator Client, start the workflow by navigating to Library | SNMP | Device Management | Register an SNMP device.
In Device address, enter the IP or FQDN of the device you want to send or receive SNMP messages to/from.
Name is just a string to identify the SNMP device in the inventory.
The Advanced function is the configuration that is used to send SNMP messages....