Hello,

I have a Hyper-V (WS2012 R2) with 150 VMs. I use a monitoring application which is called "Cacti" (like Nagios).

That's why I want to monitor the Hyper-V's virtual switch on this app (bandwidth for each Vm). Is it possible with SNMP installed on the virtual switch ?

Thank you.

• Edited by Asgard8456 Friday, July 24, 2015 8:25 AM

You don't want to monitor the virtual switch, you actually want to monitor the virtual ports of the virtual switch.  Each virtual port we also know as a vNIC (the virtual NIC of the VM).

This is the object you monitor.  You monitor an instance for each VM.

Monitoring the switch is like monitoring an infrastructure switch, not the same as your intent.

The Measure- set of cmdlets give you a wealth of information here.

• Measure-VM
• Measure-VMReplication
• Measure-VMResourcePool (most likely you aren't using these, very few folks even know they exist)

Hi Asgard8456,

Additional, SNMP is deprecated in Server 2012, instead, use the Common Information Model (CIM), which is supported by the WS-Management web services protocol and implemented as Windows Remote Management.

The related KB:

Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Hh831568.aspx

Im glad to be of help to you!