During the snmp daemon enabling in vmware esxi 5.5.0 the following error appears.

We have to enable snmp service in /etc/vmware/snmp.xml , log through in ssh and

~ # vi /etc/vmware/snmp.xml

this is the default content

<config><snmpSettings><enable>false</enable><communities></communities><targets></targets></snmpSettings></config>

change

<enable>false</enable>

to

<enable>true</enable>

also we can add and snmp community

<communities>public</communities>

restart all the services

/sbin/services.sh restart