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Enable SNMP Polling on an ESXi host

When using a third party network monitoring program (like Solarwinds Orion) you need to enable SNMP on your ESXi hosts. Setting up SNMP is pretty simple to do using vicfg-snmp on the VMware Management Assistant (vMA).

If the host is set up in FastPass, set the target ESXi.
$ vifptarget -s <Name/IP of ESXi host>

If the host is not set up in FastPass then –server, –username, and –password options can be used with vicfg-snmp.

To view the current SNMP configuration run.
$ vicfg-snmp -s

Current SNMP agent settings:
Enabled : 0
UDP port : 161

Communities :

Notification targets :

SNMP is not enabled and no community is set.

To set the community string:
$ vicfg-snmp -c <Community String>

Then enable SNMP
$ vicfg-snmp -E

The ESXi server will now respond to SNMP polling.
$ vicfg-snmp -s

Current SNMP agent settings:
Enabled : 1
UDP port : 161

Communities :
MyReadOnlyCommunity

Notification targets :

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