SNMP::...VMware(3pm)

💖 SNMP::Info::Layer3::VMware — the whole glow-up ✨

ok so bestie, welcome to SNMP::...VMware(3pm) — yeah the man page name got truncated mid-word, we don't talk about it, it's giving "username taken so I added underscores" 💀. Anyway. This is the Perl doc for SNMP::Info::Layer3::VMware, and it's genuinely iconic.

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🎀 NAME

SNMP::Info::Layer3::VMware — the SNMP interface to VMware ESXi. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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👑 AUTHORS

Max Kosmach. absolute legend, no cap. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS

here's how you actually use it, fr fr:

# Let SNMP::Info determine the correct subclass for you.
my $host = new SNMP::Info(
                         AutoSpecify => 1,
                         Debug       => 1,
                         DestHost    => 'myhost',
                         Community   => 'public',
                         Version     => 2
                       )
   or die "Can't connect to DestHost.\n";

my $class      = $host->class();
print "SNMP::Info determined this device to fall under subclass : $class\n";

ok so the move here is you let SNMP::Info be the main character with AutoSpecify => 1 and it figures out the right subclass for you. if it can't connect to DestHost, it literally dies with "Can't connect to DestHost.\n" — dramatic but fair. 😭

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💅 DESCRIPTION

this is a subclass for VMware ESXi. that's the whole point of it. periodt.

🌸 Inherited Classes

• SNMP::Info::Layer3
• SNMP::Info::IEEE802dot3ad

🌈 Required MIBs

• VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB
• VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB

you need these. don't skip them, that's the vibe check. 🧚

💜 Inherited Classes' MIBs

• head over to "Required MIBs" in SNMP::Info::Layer3 for what that one needs.
• and "Required MIBs" in SNMP::Info::IEEE802dot3ad for its MIB requirements too.

no gatekeeping here, the MIB requirements are all documented. iykyk. 💖

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⭐ GLOBALS

these are the methods that return a scalar value straight from SNMP. one value, no table, just a lil guy. 🍓

• $vmware->vendor() — returns 'vmware'. lowercase, iconic, correct.
• $vmware->os() — returns the value of "vmwProdName.0".
• $vmware->os_ver() — returns the software version, formatted as major-update.patch.build (ex. 5.1.0-3.55.2583090).

the way that's built: ("vmwProdVersion")-("vmwProdUpdate").("vmwProdPatch").("vmwProdBuild")

🦋 Globals imported from SNMP::Info::Layer3

there's more where that came from — see the documentation in SNMP::Info::Layer3 for the details. 💫

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🔥 TABLE ENTRIES

these are the methods that hand you whole tables of info, shaped as a reference to a hash. we love a data structure. 😌

• "agg_ports" — returns a HASH reference mapping from slave to master port for each member of a port bundle on the device. Keys are ifIndex of the slave ports, Values are ifIndex of the corresponding master ports. so like... slave → master. matched. slay. 👑

💖 Table Methods imported from SNMP::Info::Layer3

see the documentation in SNMP::Info::Layer3 for details.

🎀 Table Methods imported from SNMP::Info::IEEE802dot3ad

see the documentation in SNMP::Info::IEEE802dot3ad for details.

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it. 🫶 this was SNMP::...VMware(3pm) from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-28 — User Contributed Perl Documentation, forever and always. mwah 💋✨