How to enable SNMP on ESX?

[Joe_W]

I was wondering if someone could let me know how to enable SNMP on an ESX version 3 server?

We are looking at using a program from Solarwinds (http://www.solarwinds.com) to monitor our ESX servers and we need to have SNMP enabled for the program to gather data.

Joe

[Andrew_Judge]

root on console:

chkconfig --list

you should get snmpd

chkconfig --level 2345 snmpd on

service start snmpd

make sure you've edited your snmpd.conf file in /etc/ before - man snmpd.conf and read the actual file for examples.

esxcfg-firewall -o 161,tcp,in,SNMPD

Traps are different, but this answers your Q.

Best regards,

Andrew Judge

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