1. Download the Solarwinds VMWare ESX Monitor.

2. Install it in your Windows workstation.

3. SSH or console into your ESX server as root, or equivalent.

4. type nano /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf to open the configuration for editing.

5. make sure there is a statement that says rocommunity public, if not add it. Otherwise close.

6. at the command line type: chkconfig snmpd on t (to make the service start automatically)

7. Restart the snmpd service: service snmpd restart

8, open your ESX firewall for snmp port 161 UDP and TCP by entering the following:

esxcfg-firewall -o 161,tcp,in,snmp
esxcfg-firewall -o 161,udp,in,snmp

Now open up your Solar Winds monitor and enter the name of the ESX server. The defaults should work fine unless you changed the public string name to something else.