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September 10, 2012

Howto enable SNMP on Vmware VCSA & ESXI

Filed under: VMware Related — Tags: , , , , — Syed Jahanzaib / Pinochio~:) @ 1:10 PM

  • VCSA – Vcenter appliance 7 section added on 15-FEB-2021

  • ESXI 6.5 section added on 26-SEP-2017 / 31-MAY-2018

  • Howto enable SNMP on VCSA 7

Login to VCSA using SSH client (putty or likewise with ROOT access) & issue following commands

#check SNMP current
status snmp.get
# now enable SNMP Community string & other details, modify as per need
snmp.set --communities public
snmp.set --syscontact aacableathotmaildotcom
snmp.set --syslocation "Karachi NOC, PK"
# ENABLE SNMP SERVICE NOW
snmp.enable

  • Howto enable SNMP on ESXi 6.5

To enable SNMP on ESXI 6.5 , First start the SNMP service via web client, then SSH to the esxi server & issue following command [change the public with your own snmp string]

esxcli system snmp set --communities public
esxcli system snmp set --enable true
esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id snmp --allowed-all true
esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id snmp --enabled true
/etc/init.d/snmpd restart

  • Howto enable SNMP on ESXi 5 using Windows Vsphere CLi commands

First enable SSH service
You can read following article on howto enable ssh using vsphere client.

http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2011/08/enable-ssh-on-esxi-5-via-vsphere-client/

Now using vSphere CLI [via windows], type

vicfg-snmp.pl -server 10.0.0.1 -username username -password mypass -c zaibsnmp
###(you can change zaibsnmp to any name you like for the community name)
vicfg-snmp.pl -server 10.0.0.1 -username root -password mypass -enable

& you will see

Enabling agent…
Complete.

Regard’s
Syed Jahanzaib