[Cialug] SNMPD on Linux

Nathan C. Smith nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
Thu Jan 15 14:24:08 CST 2009


 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Nathan C. Smith
> <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> > After taking somebody's suggestion on this list I have been 
> working with Cacti and Nagios again.  Fortunately they are 
> both coming to me better than the last time I looked.
> > I'm now trying to get snmpd configured so that I can access 
> it remotely and I am failing miserably.  Does anyone have any 
> tips (or a working config) they could share for snmpd.conf?
> > I've worked through a couple configs I have found in books 
> and a few on the Internet and I'm not getting any success.  
> (ye I remembered to restart the daemon ;)  )
> 
> You using a distribution package? For example, in debian
> /etc/default/snmpd sets SNMPDOPTS to bind to 127.0.0.1 only
> _______________________________________________

So to get it to respond to any address/adapter to I just omit the 127.0.0.1 or add all the addresses or perhaps 0.0.0.0 I want to use?

Here is what is says:

SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -I -smux -p /var/run/snmpd.pid 127.0.0.1'

I'm going to try without anything first.

-Nate


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