setting up snmp for esx hosts using esxcli

Posted: July 17, 2014/Under: VMware, VMware | CLI/By: vNote42

This post shows the commands need for configuring snmp for esxi hosts

enable the agent
esxcli system snmp set -e 1

set community-string string
esxcli system snmp set –communities string

set trap destination (server) using community-string string
esxcli system snmp set -t server/string

show configuration
esxcli system snmp get

sending testtrap
esxcli system snmp test