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In this article, we will look at how to configure SNMP for VMware ESXi. Accompanying the post is a video demonstration covering the process. The following demonstration uses VMware ESXi 6.0 but should also be applicable to other versions. 1. Enable SSH access to your ESXi server and authenticate using admin credentials. 2. Enter the following commands: esxcli system snmp set --communities CC1ELab esxcli system snmp set --targets 192.168.1.10@161/snmpstring esxcli system snmp set --enable true 3. Verify SNMP by polling your ESXi server That's all there is to it! You can also check out the video demonstration below.    

In this article I would like to cover how to configure SNMPv3 for Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). In a few deployments I’ve done, I’ve come across the need to configure ISE to send SNMPv3 traps to a Network Management System (NMS). SNMPv3 is perfect for ensuring the authentication and encryption of SNMP traffic, something that can’t be done with inferior SNMP versions. Now, one would assume that we could just go ahead and configure ISE for SNMP via the GUI however, unfortunately that’s not the case. To actually configure ISE to send traps to an NMS system we need to configure the settings via the CLI. The demonstration in the article is performed using a standalone ISE. This demonstration also assumes that you have connectivity between your NMS platform and ISE. To see a live demonstration with testing, refer to the video that accompanies this article. Configuration Steps Enable SNMP So that we can configure the required SNMPv3 settings for ISE, SNMP needs to be enabled. iselab/a...