Enable SNMP on VMware ESX

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Introduction

When SNMP is enabled on the ESX hypervisors on your network, OptiView will be able to communticate with the ESX and  showi detailed information that is otherwise unavailable.

  • Device resources and virtual machine info.  
  • What virtual machine is running on what host
  • What host is running a specific virtual machine

Solution

To enable SNMP, execute the following command on each ESX on your network. 

esxcli system snmp set --community <community string>
esxcli system snmp set --enable true

Once SNMP is enabled, the Device Details > SNMP Tables > System Group > Up Time value will start at zero and starts to increase.  OptiView will show a "Detected reboot in the last 5 days" warming for this first five days.  This is normal behavior of VMware and cannot be avoided.

 

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