SNMP help

[Luke Kearney]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:14:12 -0800 (PST)
whizkid at ValueDJ.com granted us these pearls of wisdom:

> > In the last episode (Oct 30), Ronnie Clark said:
> >> Thanks all for the suggestions. I have the port installed, but how
> doDaemoncontrol
> >> I configure this beast to work with OpenView? I have looked at the
> >> online docs for the port, but it is all jibberish to this newbie.
> >> Anyone have a simple to follow doc or set of guidelines to setup
> >> net-snmp to be monitored by Openview?
> >
> > There shouldn't be any configuration needed.  By default, net-snmp will
> > output stats for network interfaces, disk usage, CPU load, memory/swap
> > usage, and active processes.  How to get all that stuff monitored by
> > OpenView I have no idea.
> 
> If it is anything like Compaq's Inside Manager, you should only need to
> set the SNMP community string in the FreeBSD SMNP Deamon.  How this is
> done I am not sure.  There should be a way for you to set the read only
> and full controll community strings.  Then just add the server like you
> would any other server in Open View.

you will need to setup your snmpd.conf file properly with the
appropriate community strings and acl's. The should be a tool to assist
with this. I installed from source so my conf file is
/usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf but your might be under /usr/local/etc 
there should be a script that was installed to help with config - I just
cannot remember what it is called, a search on the snmpd home page might
reveal some more clues.

HTH

LukeK