snmpwalk not found on ESX 5.5

[Priyanka_Gemalt]

Hi,

After configuring the snmp on ESX 5.5

# esxcli system snmp test

   Comments: There is 1 target configured, send warmStart requested, test completed normally.

I cant get snmpwalk command.

~ # snmpwalk

-sh: snmpwalk: not found

~ # vmware -lv

VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-2403361

VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 2

~ # echo $PATH

/bin:/sbin

snmp is enabled on the vmware vpshere.

Can anyone help ?

Thanks,

Priyanka

[vikasdutt2012]

Hi Priyanka,

Please review the KB from VMware which stated that if you have more then 10 Datastore ,snmpwalk will not work.

VMware Knowledge Base ​

Hope this will resolve your concern,

[Priyanka_Gemalt]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

Do you mean this list

~ # df -h

Filesystem   Size   Used Available Use% Mounted on

VMFS-3       1.9T   1.5T    377.9G  80% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore2_level-1_1

VMFS-3       1.9T 880.5G      1.0T  46% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore1_level-1_1

VMFS-3       1.1T 895.8G    219.7G  80% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore4_test_level2_3

VMFS-3       1.1T 769.0G    346.5G  69% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore5_test_level2_3

VMFS-3       1.1T 724.0G    391.5G  65% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore7_level123

VMFS-3       1.1T 453.2G    662.3G  41% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore1_test_level2_3

VMFS-3       1.6T 905.4G    767.9G  54% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore2_test_level2_3

VMFS-3     799.8G 565.0M    799.2G   0% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore4_level-1_1

VMFS-3     277.2G  66.0G    211.2G  24% /vmfs/volumes/local_datastore_st2esx05

VMFS-3       1.9T   1.2T    716.1G  62% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore3_level-1_1

VMFS-3       1.1T 501.6G    613.9G  45% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore6_test_level2_3

VMFS-3       1.1T 825.5G    290.0G  74% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore9_level123

VMFS-3       1.1T 344.3G    807.9G  30% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore5_level-1_1

VMFS-3       1.1T 479.4G    636.1G  43% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore3_test_level2_3

VMFS-3       1.1T 814.9G    300.6G  73% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore8_level123

It sure is more than 10 datastore.

Regards,

Priyanka

[Priyanka_Gemalt]

Hi Vikas,

I read the KB article, according to it snmpwalk issue is resolved on ESX 5.5 U2 which is the version i have on my server now.

Any other ideas ?

Thanks,

Priyanka

[santhoshBJ]

Hi Priyanka,

where are you trying to run the snmpwalk command? If you are trying to run them on ESXi then it is not supported. ESXi only has an snmp agent service running in it which will respond for snmp queries and/or send traps when there is an issue.

To run snmpwalk please  install net-snmp or any other snmp client on a different machine (linux or windows), and then you can query the ESXi server for data from the remote machine.

Example:

snmpwalk -v1 -c <community>  <ESXi IP> OID

Hope this helps.