SNMP help

[Richard Coleman]

After installing the net-snmp port, add snmpd_enable="YES" to your 
/etc/rc.conf.  Then the snmpd daemon will start upon next boot (startup 
script should be in /usr/local/etc/rc.d).  Then do your standard 
Openview snmp discovery for this machine.  That should be enough to get 
you started.  If you want to change the data reported, you will need to 
do some reading at that point to learn how to extend the MIB.  The 
O'reilly book on snmp is logical place to start for this.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com

Ronnie Clark wrote:

> Thanks all for the suggestions. I have the port
> installed, but how do 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?
> 
> Thanks again in advance,
> Ron Clark
> 
> 
> 
> --- Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> 
>>In the last episode (Oct 29), Ronnie Clark said:
>>
>>>I have been tasked with building two new FreeBSD
>>
>>Servers for our
>>
>>>enterprise. Today, I was told that they have to
>>
>>have the ability to
>>
>>>be polled by OpenView. So I have to load SNMP on
>>
>>these servers. Any
>>
>>>suggestions as to what I should load to accomplish
>>
>>this?
>>
>>Install the net-snmp port.
>>
>>-- 
>>	Dan Nelson
>>	dnelson at allantgroup.com