{"id":2103,"date":"2014-01-19T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2015-12-15T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:29:24","slug":"vmware-esxi-host-enable-snmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2014\/01\/vmware-esxi-host-enable-snmp\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware | Enable SNMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although SNMP traps can be configured within Windows VMs installed on the VMWare host it can also be configured to report directly from ESXi. This configuration helps monitoring software such as Solarwinds<\/a> or Spiceworks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Configure ESXi SNMP via CLI (with Prompts):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Download\/Install:\u00a0VMware vSphere CLI 5.1<\/a><\/p>\n

@echo off\r\necho Enter the FQDN of the host:\r\nset \/p hostname=\r\necho Enter the root password:\r\nset \/p password=\r\nset user=root\r\n\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware vSphere CLI\\bin\\vicfg-snmp.pl\" --server %hostname% --username %user% --password %password% -c ESX -t 200.200.200.200@161\/ESX --enable\r\n\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware vSphere CLI\\bin\\vicfg-snmp.pl\" --server %hostname% --username %user% --password %password% -show >> c:\\ESXi_SNMP.log\r\npause<\/pre>\n
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<\/strong>Configure ESXi SNMP via CLI (NO prompts):<\/strong><\/p>\n
String can also be used\u00a0without<\/span>\u00a0input prompts for quick batch run on multiple servers.<\/p>\n
@echo off\r\nset hostname1=UK-ESX01.domain.com\r\nset password1=Password123\r\nset user1=root\r\nset hostname2=UK-ESX02.domain.com\r\nset password2=Password234\r\nset user2=root\r\n\r\n\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware vSphere CLI\\bin\\vicfg-snmp.pl\" --server %hostname1% --username %user1% --password %password1% -<\/span>c ESX -t 200.200.200.200@161\/ESX --enable\r\n\r\n\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware vSphere CLI\\bin\\vicfg-snmp.pl\" --server %hostname2% --username %user2% --password %password2% -<\/span><\/span>c ESXSNMP -t 200.200.200.200@161\/ESXSNMP --enable<\/pre>\n
<\/strong>View ESXi SNMP configuration via CLI (with Prompts):<\/strong><\/p>\n
@echo off\r\necho Enter the FQDN of the host:\r\nset \/p hostname=\r\necho Enter the root password:\r\nset \/p password=\r\nset user=root\r\necho ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>\u00a0c:\\ESXi_SNMP.log\r\necho %hostname%\u00a0>>\u00a0c:\\ESXi_SNMP.log\r\n\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware vSphere CLI\\bin\\esxcli.exe\" --server %hostname% --username %user% --password %password% software vib list\u00a0>> c:\\ESXi_SNMP.log\r\npause<\/pre>\n
See Post:\u00a0<\/strong>Dell OpenManage | Windows Server & ESXi<\/a><\/p>\n
References:\u00a0<\/strong>Installing OpenManage Server Administrator on ESXi4 with OpenManage Essentials<\/a><\/p>\n
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Although SNMP traps can be configured within Windows VMs installed on the VMWare host it can also be configured to report directly from ESXi. This configuration helps monitoring software such as Solarwinds or Spiceworks. Configure ESXi SNMP via CLI (with Prompts): Download\/Install:\u00a0VMware vSphere CLI 5.1 @echo off echo Enter the FQDN of the host: set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bat","category-vmware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-xV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}