ESXI SNMP-enable

 

Steps for configuring and enabling SNMP on ESXi Host

Steps are in chronological order.

1. Putty into the ESXi Host.
2. Login as user root
3. Execute the following commands:
   1. esxcli system snmp get
   2. esxcli system snmp set --syscontact=your name
   3. esxcli system snmp set --communities=naming convention of your choice (don't recommend public)
   4. esxcli system snmp set --enable=true
   5. esxcli system snmp get
4. End

Notes:

If you need to disable SNMP, run the command:  esxcli system snmp set --enable=false

Sample screenshot of SNMP configuration an a ESXi 6.0 Host:

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dbsa@dbsa-X406UA:~/SYNOLOGY/SynologyDrive/IMAGE$ ssh root@192.168.75.6
(root@192.168.75.6) Password:  
The time and date of this login have been sent to the system logs.

VMware offers supported, powerful system administration tools.  Please
see www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools for details.

The ESXi Shell can be disabled by an administrative user. See the
vSphere Security documentation for more information.
[root@localhost:~] esxcli system snmp get
  Authentication:  
  Communities: SNMP_STRING
  Enable: false
  Engineid: 00000063000000a100000000
  Hwsrc: indications
  Largestorage: false
  Loglevel: info
  Notraps:  
  Port: 161
  Privacy:  
  Remoteusers:  
  Syscontact:  
  Syslocation:  
  Targets:  
  Users:  
  V3targets:  
[root@localhost:~] esxcli system snmp set --syscontact=harnedi
[root@localhost:~] esxcli system snmp set --communities=public
[root@localhost:~] esxcli system snmp set --enable=true
[root@localhost:~] esxcli system snmp get
  Authentication:  
  Communities: public
  Enable: true
  Engineid: 00000063000000a100000000
  Hwsrc: indications
  Largestorage: false
  Loglevel: info
  Notraps:  
  Port: 161
  Privacy:  
  Remoteusers:  
  Syscontact: harnedi
  Syslocation:  
  Targets:  
  Users:  
  V3targets:  
[root@localhost:~]