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 machines are running on the host
  • What host is currently running a specific virtual machine

Solution

To enable SNMP, the following two commands must be executed on the command line of each ESX.

esxcli system snmp set --community <community string>
   OR (version 6.5 and above)
esxcli system snmp set --communities=<community string>

esxcli system snmp set --enable true