Month: February 2013

Enable SNMP on VMware

February 21, 2013 by mark

Login to your VMware server through SSH and backup the existing configuration file: cp /etc/vmware/snmp.xml /etc/vmware/snmp.xml.org Edit the snmp configuration file and set enable to true and communities to public or the community name you want to use: vi /etc/vmware/snmp.xml Then restart the SNMP service /sbin/services.sh restart.

Dell service tag from within Windows

February 13, 2013 by mark

If you need to lookup a service tag for a Dell server running Windows, it is possible as shown below; C:\Users\Administrator>wmic csproduct get vendor,name,identifyingnumber IdentifyingNumber Name Vendor 2B7115J PowerEdge R610 Dell Inc.