How to reset configured SNMP v3 users to default on ESXi

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article describes how to reset the SNMP v3 user configuration to the default on an ESXi host.

Environment

VMware ESXi 8.*

Resolution

To reset the SNMP v3 users configured on ESXi to their default values, execute the following command:
esxcli system snmp set --users reset

The command syntax can be verified using the help option: 
esxcli system snmp set --help
  -u|--users=<str>      Set up to five local users. Format is: user/-|auth-hash/-|priv-hash/model[,...] where user is 32 chars max. 
                        '-' indicates no hash. Model is one of (none|auth|priv). Use value 'reset' to set the paramter value to default.

Additional Information

For more details on setting up SNMP v3, refer to documentation "Configure ESXi for SNMP v3".