Architecting a vSphere Compute Platform : Planning Host Deployment : 6.7 Impact of vSAN : 6.7.11 SNMP Configuration
   
6.7.11 SNMP Configuration
In addition to centralized logging and the CIM agentless monitoring visible from with the vSphere Web Client, ESXi can be configured to use SNMP to send monitoring traps, potentially highlighting problems with hardware, to an SNMP manager. Since the release of vSphere 5.1, ESXi has also supported the use of SNMPv3. To enable and configure SNMP on the host requires the use of the esxcli system snmp command.