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Enable SNMP Monitoring on VMware vSphere 5 Hosts

2013-02-07 RaveMaker
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Enable SNMP Monitoring on VMware vSphere 5 Hosts

Overview

In this tutorial I will explain how to enable SNMP Monitoring on VMware vSphere 5 Hosts.

VMware SNMP Monitoring

Enable SNMP Monitoring

- Open VMware vSphere CLI (Command Prompt - not PowerCLI) vicfg-snmp.pl --server myserver --username myusername --password mypassword -c public vicfg-snmp.pl --server myserver --username myusername --password mypassword --enable

Replace myusename, mypassword and myhostname with vSphere username, password and host-name/IP-address. Replace public with community name (you can use ‘public’ for read only) All done.