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. There are slight differences in command syntax starting with version 6.5.

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
   OR (version 6.5 and above)
esxcli system snmp set --enable=true