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Enable SNMP on ESXi 5.1 or later

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How do I enable SNMP on the ESXi host to be able to monitor it using SNMP

esxi snmp vmware

Created on Apr 24, 2014 7:40:53 AM by Aurelio Lombardi [Paessler Support]



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it is as simple as running the following commands on your individual hosts from a console session. Replace YOUR_STRING with the community string that you would like to use.

esxcli system snmp set --communities YOUR_STRING

esxcli system snmp set --enable true

Created on Apr 24, 2014 7:41:41 AM by Aurelio Lombardi [Paessler Support]

Last change on Apr 24, 2014 7:42:20 AM by Aurelio Lombardi [Paessler Support]



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If i do not err, ESXI do not accept monitoritarion with SNMP. Only can send traps

Created on Apr 30, 2014 6:45:15 AM



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on ESXi 5.1 and later you can monitor tons of stuff using SNMP!

you can already use a lot of our SNMP sensors like SNMP traffic, SNMP Diskspace;

from VMware you can download ESX MIBs,

latest would be

VMware-mibs-5.5.0-1303627.zip

that offers a lot of SNMP counters that you can use.

Created on Apr 30, 2014 7:38:55 AM by Aurelio Lombardi [Paessler Support]



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I'll start a new esxi question. There is loads of conflicting information about what is and isn't possible. I'll list what I've done and whats not working etc..... (I'll come back and post a link the new support thread)

Created on Jun 6, 2016 1:32:02 PM




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