How to enable SNMP on a VMWare ESX Servers

[gboskin]

We have a couple of vmware esx 3.5 update 2 hosst and are looking at upgrading to vSphere before the end of the year. We however have a requirement to enable SNMP so that SNMP traps can be captured for performance monitoring.

Is it just a cse of

.1 Login as root

2. Edit the snmpd.conf file and add "rocommunity xxxx" where xxxx is your read-only community string). The file is usually located in /etc/snmpd.

3 Restart the SNMP daemon - /etc/init.d/snmpd restart

[TomHowarth]

Read this blog post oin how go configure SMNP http://lewanps.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/how-to-setup-snmp-on-esx-35-servers/

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[TomHowarth]

opps my Bad, forgot we were talking about vSphere not VI3.5

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[Sudheesh]

Hi ,

SNMP implimentation in vSphere 4.0 is different from ESX 3.5.x .

You need to download a zip file containing the set of SMIv2 (RFC2578/STD58)

compliant MIB modules for use with ESX/ESXi and vCenter along with

related implementation notes. These MIB modules support all ESX, ESXi

and vCenter product releases through version 4.0.

For SNMP configuration details , See chapter 5 (Configuring Hosts and vCenter Server: SNMP and vSphere)

in the vSphere Basic System Administration guide.

Ref link : http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/managementapi

Thank you,

Sudheesh

[darkfriend]

They created a new agent for SNMP. See the following link to enable the agent. Read the manuals indicated at the end of the thread to configure the notification agent and trap setup. That should point you in the right direction. The old snmpd is not going to work at all for VMware specific traps. You will also need MIBs from file VMware-esx-mibs-1.0.0-160789.zip