Enable SNMP on VMware ESX
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
 | Once SNMP is enabled, the Device Details > SNMP Tables > System Group > Up Time value will start at zero seconds. Consequently, OptiView will show a "Detected reboot in the last5 days" warming for this first five days to come. |
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