Comments on: Install and configure SNMP on Ubuntu

By: peter

peter — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:46:43 +0000

You have missunderstod the article, it describes howto setup SNMP on Ubuntu.
So the answer is NO!
In your monitor software, point it to your switch ip and use the community string you have in your switch.

By: Rachid

Rachid — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:29:08 +0000

if my read-only password of the switch = “test”,
then I should use for ewample:
rocommunity test
syslocation “PDC, Peters DataCenter”
syscontact peter@it-slav.net

Is this correct?

By: Rachid

Rachid — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:26:56 +0000

If my readonly password for de switches = test, shuld i use “rocommunity test”?

By: Rachid

Rachid — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:25:11 +0000

it does not work with monitoring switches?

By: frostie

frostie — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:09:33 +0000

Nice post — I’ve come back to it many times, but…

SNMPDOPTS=’-LS5d -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -g snmp -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -c /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf’

This works much better. The daemon syslog doesn’t get hammered by debug and info messages from snmpd and this allows smux to work.

By: peter

peter — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:32:24 +0000

I need more info to be able to answer this question.

What works?
Have you tried snmpwalk?

By: alvin

alvin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:30:46 +0000

it’s working.

but when i add this machine to Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) not working.

what do i need to change.

Thanks for reaply.

Alvin

By: peter

peter — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:18:44 +0000

http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2008/11/11/install-and-configure-snmp-on-rhel-or-centos/

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:19:28 +0000

Hi Peter,
I am new to linux.Please leme know how to install SNMP services in rehel 5.7.
Sanjay

By: B Khuwera

B Khuwera — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:20:29 +0000

Works fine in ubuntu EBox 1 in my old client ..
thx ..

Rgds

By: chris

chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:40:23 +0000

This works just as fine as it is easy to use. Although for those who are not familiar with editing such files, vim or vi are useful tools to edit them. Thanks once more.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:45:07 +0000

Well, SNMP=Security Not My Problem
Depending on which version it is very unsafe up to rather safe. However if you followed my tutorial it is read-only and rather insensitive data. But if security concern you, do not use SNMP.

By: fixer

fixer — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:59:31 +0000

Bout damn time someone with common sense published a tut people can understand, thanks, now I have snmpd working, how secure is this anyway?

By: peter

peter — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:12:58 +0000

M.Ram Murthy, my recommendation is to to either get the knowledge or buy it. Contact op5 at http://www.op5.com to get some help

By: mAd-1

mAd-1 — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:07:40 +0000

Thanks sooooo very much. I’ve been battling snmp for a few days going through a ton of guides nad forums and your insturctions were spot on to getting it up and running. You’ve managed to stop me from going bald!

.:tup tup:.

By: M.Ram Murthy

M.Ram Murthy — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:04:09 +0000

I have installed snmp successfully,but i request you to please give some info about monitoring in the LAN network using snmp.
And i presently using nagios tool for monitoring the systems.

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By: head

head — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:50:00 +0000

i had to apt-get install snmp to make snmpwalk work

ubuntu 10.04 server i386

tnx helped alot

By: peter

peter — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:32:40 +0000

I have no clue. I have not used mrtg, only cacti.

By: vaibhav

vaibhav — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:58:51 +0000

I am trying to install mrtg….i am in the last step in completing the process but when i entered the command..
indexmaker –output=/var/www/mrtg/index.html /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
it gives the following error.
Use of uninitialized value $first in hash element at /usr/bin/indexmaker line 353.

I searched it on google but i don’t get the proper answer..plz help me out..

By: UbuntuUser

UbuntuUser — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:17:42 +0000

Thanks!
it works great;
configured on Ubuntu Desktop; 8.x, 10.x and Server 10.x

By: peter

peter — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:32:24 +0000

You give me to little information of what you have done to be able to help you.
What is free installation of snmp?
How did you uninstall? and why?

By: vaibhav

vaibhav — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:53:37 +0000

i deinstall all the snmpd packages and again made a free installation of snmp but at this time i don’t get the snmpd.conf, snmptrapd.conf.i don’t know why this happens.Plz give me solution

By: vaibhav

vaibhav — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:24:33 +0000

when i type the locate snmpd.conf it shows that the file is existing but when i go to the actual snmp dir and then try to find snmpd.conf file through ls command it doesn’t show any file.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:18:20 +0000

It is snmpd.conf, not snmp.conf
To find it run:
locate snmpd.conf