How do I enable SNMP on the ESXi host to be able to monitor it using SNMP

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it is as simple as running the following commands on your individual hosts from a console session. Replace YOUR_STRING with the community string that you would like to use.

esxcli system snmp set --communities YOUR_STRING

esxcli system snmp set --enable true


Apr, 2014 - Permalink

If i do not err, ESXI do not accept monitoritarion with SNMP. Only can send traps


Apr, 2014 - Permalink

on ESXi 5.1 and later you can monitor tons of stuff using SNMP!

you can already use a lot of our SNMP sensors like SNMP traffic, SNMP Diskspace;

from VMware you can download ESX MIBs,

latest would be

VMware-mibs-5.5.0-1303627.zip

that offers a lot of SNMP counters that you can use.


Apr, 2014 - Permalink

I'll start a new esxi question. There is loads of conflicting information about what is and isn't possible. I'll list what I've done and whats not working etc..... (I'll come back and post a link the new support thread)


Jun, 2016 - Permalink