An SNMP community defines a group of devices and management systems. Only devices and management systems that are members of the same community can exchange SNMP messages. A device or management system can be a member of multiple communities.

To configure SNMP communities, run

esxcli system snmp set

, specifying a comma-separated list of communities as shown in the following example.

Each time you specify a community with this command, the settings that you specify overwrite the previous configuration.