{"id":105,"date":"2023-03-19T08:32:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T07:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.4.44.99:10084\/?p=105"},"modified":"2023-03-19T08:32:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T07:32:44","slug":"vmware-esxi-host-snmp-access-v2c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"VMware | ESXi Host SNMP access v2c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here I will describe how to enable SNMP v2c Access on a ESXi Host via&nbsp;<strong>esxcli<\/strong>&nbsp;Command Line Tool.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;&gt; See&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/index.php\/de\/wissen\/60-install-vmware-vcli-at-redhat-centos-to-check-with-nagios\">Install VMware vCLI at Redhat\/Centos to check with Nagios<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First you had to create a local user and password on each ESXi host which has the proper rights for snmp querys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.) Set Privacy Algorithm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>esxcli --server HOSTNAME --username USERNAME --password 'PASSWORD' system snmp set --privacy AES128\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>2.) Set community name (in this example the community name is publicvm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>esxcli --server HOSTNAME --username USERNAME --password 'PASSWORD' system snmp set --communities publicvm\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>3.) Enable SNMP on Host<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>esxcli --server HOSTNAME --username USERNAME --password 'PASSWORD' system snmp set --enable yes\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After those settings you are able to connect to your esxi host via snmpwalk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I will describe how to enable SNMP v2c Access on a ESXi Host via&nbsp;esxcli&nbsp;Command Line Tool.&nbsp; &#8211;&gt; See&nbsp;Install VMware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,67,69,172,182,185,188],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kb","tag-esxi","tag-esxi-host-snmp","tag-esxi-snmp","tag-snmp-v2x-esxi","tag-vmware","tag-vmware-esxi","tag-vmware-host-snmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winni.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}