The SNMP target is a server on which monitoring software is installed to handle SNMP traps and collect monitoring information. The community name in this example is “ nakivo”.Įsxcli system snmp set -communities nakivo Set the community name (“ public” is the community name set by default). The SNMP agent is used to send notifications (SNMP traps and informs) to a monitoring server and receive GET, GETNEXT, and GETBULK requests. Set SNMP parameters for an SNMP agent on the ESXi host. Most of the parameters are empty and or not configured. The output for disabled SNMP on ESXi is shown on the screenshot. Run the command in the console (terminal) and check the SNMP status on the ESXi host: The graphical user interface (GUI) allows you only to start, stop, and restart the SNMP service. On ESXi hosts, SNMP can be configured only in the command-line interface. Once SSH access to the ESXi host is established, you can configure VMware ESXi SNMP options. Ssh the IP address of your ESXi host and port TCP 22 (the default port number) in the session settings of the SSH client to connect to the ESXi host via SSH. In Linux, run the SSH client from the command line with the command: If you’re using Windows, you can use PuTTY, a free and convenient SSH client. Now you can connect to the ESXi host from a machine with an SSH client installed. On the screenshot below you see the started SSH server service on the ESXi host. Right-click TSM-SSH and, in the context menu, click Start. In the Navigator pane, go to Host > Manage and click the Services tab. Open a web browser, enter the IP address of your ESXi host in the address bar, then enter credentials to log in. In order to enable SSH access to your ESXi host, you can use VMware Host Client. SSH access on an ESXi host is needed to run ESXCLI commands on a host remotely. Use your IP addresses and other values for the appropriate parameters when configuring ESXi monitoring via SNMP in your infrastructure to meet your configuration. The IP address of the Ubuntu Linux machine is 192.168.101.209.

The IP address of the ESXi host is 192.168.101.208.

I’m going to explain ESXi SNMP configuration using an example with one ESXi 7.0 host and one Ubuntu Linux machine on which monitoring software is installed.

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