source: vmware Here’s a quick and dirty on how to enable SNMP  on vSphere and ESX hosts. 1. Login to the console as root 2. Open snmpd.conf file with editor (you can find snmpd.conf  in /etc/snmpd) and add “rocommunity xxxx” where xxxx is your read-only community string). 3. While you’re editing the snmpd.conf file, also [...]