ggeldenhuis
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8 years ago brain/chat dump: For 6.0, they added some kind of thumbprint security that you have to enable prior to CLI connecting smoothly. Based on my (super-cursory) attempt to get it to work, the docs on how to do that don't seem accurate so YMMV there. Additionally they added a line to the snmpd script that disables snmp if you run it from the command line. which is why the reload is bracketed by enables. I was in a hurry so I just did it via SSH. Here's my very hurried recipe. The only thing you have to change is the community string: For Each ESXi host (from the GUI): CONFIGURATION - SERVICES START SSH SERVICE Using Putty or whatever - LOGIN SSH AS ROOT STOP SSH SERVICE From the SSH command line: esxcli system snmp set --communities COMMUNITYNAME esxcli system snmp set --enable true esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id snmp --allowed-all true esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id snmp --enabled=true /etc/init.d/snmpd restart sleep 5 esxcli system snmp set --enabled true esxcli system snmp get SNMPD - START SERVICE
crayfishx
It would be useful to extend the module to allow for the setting of SNMP community strings and other SNMP related settings as allowed by the API.