SNMP service is inactive and stopped after applying patch to vCenter

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 7.0
• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

After applying a patch to vCenter Server

• unable to get infomation from vCenter Server with snmp
• snmp trap is not sent from vCenter Server
• snmpd service is disabled and stopped

# service snmpd status
snmpd.service - VMware SNMP Server Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/snmpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)

Resolution

This is a known issue with vCenter 7.0 and 8.0.

 

Workaround:

To enable and start snmpd service perform the following commands.

# systemctl enable snmpd.service
# systemctl start snmpd.service