Hey All,
I know there is a lot of discussion on the topic of SNMP on the Community Board and out on the internet, but I haven't yet been able to find anything that's helped. I'm trying to get SNMPv3 working with auth/priv on my ESXi 5.5 hosts. I can get it working just fine with v2, but as soon as I introduce the auth and priv components, it shows up in NNMi as "No SNMP". Today, I tried v3 with no auth and priv and still no-go. We've opened tickets with both VMware and HP and they just point their finger at each other.
I've followed the process below, which is from the VMware Blog site:
There are 8 steps (not all are applicable):
esxcli system snmp set –engineid 766d77617265
esxcli system snmp set –authentication SHA1
esxcli system snmp set –privacy AES128
esxcli system snmp hash -r -A secret1234 -X secret5678
esxcli system snmp set –users william/f9f7311379046ebcb5d134439ee5b7754da8a90f/d300f16eec59fb3b7ada7844ff764cbf4641fe5f/priv (I used the hash values for the secrets I used)
esxcli system snmp set –v3targets pod23-esx-01a.pml.local@161/william/priv/trap
esxcli system snmp set –enable true
esxcli system snmp test
We can get the snmpwalk to work, but there is something with the credentials that it doesn't seem to like. In my username, I'm using all uppercase letters with one underscore and for the password I'm using a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters and special characters. In my research on the internet, I've found that Solarwinds users are reporting that they also cannot get SNMPv3 to work with 5.5. Has anyone here gotten v3, using auth and priv, to work on ESXi 5.5? Am I missing something in my configuration?
Thanks,
Jeff
Did you ever find a solution to this?
Nice information