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Anonymous13

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September 9th, 2009 02:00

snmpd config doesn't work on ESX4

Seems that VMware have changed the snmpd daemon between 3.5 and 4 and the commands above no longer work to configure snmpd as snmpd.conf doesn't contain any of the relevant strings.

Pionir

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September 10th, 2009 08:00

There's a good article for configuring SNMP here: http://techblog.sunsetsurf.co.uk/2009/06/configuring-vmware-esx4i-vsphere-for-snmp/

This seems to get SNMP working so you can SNMP walk it. I haven't been able to get my ESX4 hosts show up in IT Assistant yet though and it doesn't seem to get any traps either.

Pionir

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October 22nd, 2009 08:00

I finally cracked it - the problem is when you use a custom "get" string in ITAssistant. The dell docs don't show where you modify the snmpd.conf file and it'll only respond on the public string.

I've documented the setup in full here:
http://workblog.pionir.org.uk/monitoring-vmware-vsphere-esx4-with-dell-itas

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