Hi,
In order to monitor some xSeries (3550/7978) servers with ESX 4.0 (/!\ not ESXi 4.0 /!\), I enabled snmp trapping on hosts.
Traps from ESX works.
Next step is to "forward" hardware traps, coming from a "Remote Supervisor Adapter II" card on the server. I downloaded the daemon to do it from IBM repository (IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II Daemon v1.53 for Linux - IBM System x) and try to install in on ESX hosts (it's a RPM file).
The problem is the need of the RPM binary to do so. And RPM has been removed from ESX byVMWare because: "ESX 4.0 Service Console is Not a Development Environment" (as I read in the "Changes to the ESX Service Console for ESX 4.0" technical paper, page 5).
My question is quite simple: is there other way to install the RSA Daemon on the ESX ? Or do you have a solution to install/enable rpm on the hosts ?
Thanks per advance 
Christophe
uname -a on ESX 4.0 reports: "VMkernel <HOSTNAME> 4.0.0 #1 SMP Release build-261974 May 24 2010 21:47:57 x86_64 unknown"
Package from IBM is located at: http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5081608&brandind=5000008
The technical paper "Changes to the ESX Service Console for ESX 4.0" seen at: http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/10411-102-4-8556/COSTechPaper.pdf;jsessionid=C8613073763119FA1EDA19CB2197453F