Good snmpd setup or how-to?

I have a small setup at home, Redhat 9 box connected to ADSL modem, connects
with roaring penguin. Runs apache, vsftpd, firestarter, and senmail. Has
FQDN. 2nd NIC connects to hub, hub to two XP machines. Linux box is
gateway/server/router/firewall.

I have net-snmptd installed but not setup or running. I want to use WhatsUp
Gold to monitor this network. I need to setup snmpd on the linux machine so
that WhatsUp will be able to work.

Can anyone recommend a good how-to or guide for this or offer any helpful
suggestions?

Thanks.

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In comp.os.linux.networking Ohmster <(E-Mail Removed)> suggested:
> I have a small setup at home, Redhat 9 box connected to ADSL modem, connects
> with roaring penguin. Runs apache, vsftpd, firestarter, and senmail. Has
> FQDN. 2nd NIC connects to hub, hub to two XP machines. Linux box is
> gateway/server/router/firewall.

> I have net-snmptd installed but not setup or running. I want to use WhatsUp
> Gold to monitor this network. I need to setup snmpd on the linux machine so
> that WhatsUp will be able to work.

> Can anyone recommend a good how-to or guide for this or offer any helpful
> suggestions?

Should be answered in the FAQ:

http://www.net-snmp.org/FAQ.html

In addition the fine manual 'man snmpd.conf' should be helpful
while setting up the agent. Basically you just have to enable
snmpv2 (community) or/and create/configure a snmpv3 user and
restart snmpd.

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Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news0tgn1-
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> Should be answered in the FAQ:
>
> http://www.net-snmp.org/FAQ.html
>
> In addition the fine manual 'man snmpd.conf' should be helpful
> while setting up the agent. Basically you just have to enable
> snmpv2 (community) or/and create/configure a snmpv3 user and
> restart snmpd.
>

Hmmm, that is pretty darned helpful, I am reading it now.

Hmmm, what is a "MIB"? They seem to think one already knows this by reading
the FAQ. This is a bit over my head. I just want the thing to get up and
running so that I can explore it a bit. I tried this go get me started:

snmpconf -g basic_setup

Whoa man, this is not self-explanitory at all, I backed out with ctl-c. Here
is what I found:

[root@ohmster root]# snmpconf -g basic_setup

The following installed configuration files were found:

1: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

Would you like me to read them in? Their content will be merged with the
output files created by this session.

Valid answer examples: "all", "none","3","1,2,5"

Read in which (default = all):


....would one want to "read in" the original snmp.conf file as supplies by
redhat? Let's just say "none" for right now. (file /etc/snmp/snmp.conf backed
up to snmp.conf.orig)

Next question:

************************************************
*** Beginning basic system information setup ***
************************************************
Do you want to configure the information returned in the system MIB group
(contact info, etc)? (default = y):

Let's go default "y".

Configuring: syslocation
Description:
The [typically physical] location of the system.
Note that setting this value here means that when trying to
perform an snmp SET operation to the sysLocation.0 variable will make
the agent return the "notWritable" error code. IE, including
this token in the snmpd.conf file will disable write access to
the variable.
arguments: location_string

The location of the system:

Okay what does this mean? They want to know the physical locatioin of what,
the computer? Like "bedroom" or something? I don't know what I am doing, ctl-
c.

can you give me some pointers here, Mike?

Thanks.

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> Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news0tgn1-
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>> Should be answered in the FAQ:
>>
>> http://www.net-snmp.org/FAQ.html

[..]

> [root@ohmster root]# snmpconf -g basic_setup

Good idea!

[..]

> ...would one want to "read in" the original snmp.conf file as supplies by
> redhat? Let's just say "none" for right now. (file /etc/snmp/snmp.conf backed
> up to snmp.conf.orig)

Depends on what it contains, sometime there are useful comments.

[..]

> Do you want to configure the information returned in the system MIB group
> (contact info, etc)? (default = y):

[..]

> The location of the system:

> Okay what does this mean? They want to know the physical locatioin of what,
> the computer? Like "bedroom" or something? I don't know what I am doing, ctl-
> c.

You can put in what you want, it's just what will be displayed if
you query the agent for the syslocation. It can be used in large
installation, where it might be wanted to be able to gather the
systems position via snmp.

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Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:lpain1-
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> You can put in what you want, it's just what will be displayed if
> you query the agent for the syslocation. It can be used in large
> installation, where it might be wanted to be able to gather the
> systems position via snmp.

Thanks Mike.

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