SNMP Issues & Mgmt

[greenville02]

1) Virtualbox 6.122 on MACOS Provides SNMP Interfaces to a Third Party SNMP Manager but Virtualbox 6.122 on Windows has identically configured virtual machines inaccessible to the same management station.

2) WE need the Hypervisor(VirtualBoxManager) to get an IP address assignment, and have its own SNMP Mib support.

3) The Hypervisor MIB should identify the status, name, and performance of the VM's installed on the machine.

Working with HPOV/Microfocus NNMI and have tried the same issues to both Ivanti, and Opensource PandoraFMS with same result.

4) Without SNMP support, this product is not deployable in a large enterprise.

Sincerely, Greenville Associates Consulting.

[greenville02]

Correction... we found a problem with the Windows SNMP agent its cap sensitive. so we are amending the above to the following:

1) Virtualbox allows individual Machines to run SNMP agents on every platform, and passes SNMP traffic transparently on virtual network interfaces. BUT 2) The Virtualbox Hypervisor(Virtualbox Manager) does not support a dedicated IP address, and an SNMP stack so that it can be queried for sub-machine information. We would like it to have SNMP MIB support. 3) The SNMP MIB should support at a minimum the name, status, and operational info for all machines attached to the Manager/Hypervisor. 4) Without SNMP support, this product is not deployable across a large enterprise. 5) Oracle VM Server which uses different technology (Zen) does in fact have an SNMP agent, which Oracle should be able to access and port to Virtualbox.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Interesting feature request, which is so far quite isolated. I can see why this is required (and long implemented) for a server oriented hypervisor. Yes, VirtualBox can do this, but it shows its traditional strength of desktop workloads where central information retrieval is a non-issue. What multiplies the effort is that VirtualBox would likely need a different implementation for every platform (on Linux maybe more, because there are several SNMP agent implementations commonly used, with different plugin mechanisms). The other hypervisors mentioned are not affected since they exist only on one platform.