I’ve been messing around with Server Core for a little bit now. I’ve got a core installation running Hyper-V, and I would like to monitor the server via SNMP.
I’ve already enabled SNMP via start /w ocsetup SNMP-SC…. but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to set the community strings, etc..
I’ve got remote administration enabled, and can add and see the services add in via the MMC. I do not get the extra tabs that are usually included on the SNMP service though.

Encountered an issue with configuring SNMP on a Server 2008 core installation today.  I enabled SNMP but could not figure out how to actually configure it.  With Server 2008 Core you can not run the Microsoft Management Console, so no serverices.msc to configure it.  And when connecting to the server remotly through the services management console you do not get the extra tabs on the SMNP service.

The only way I could find around this was to use one of my other full gui Server 2008 installs to configure SMNP and then export the registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP) and import it into the Core installation.

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