topic Re: What is best setup for SNMP settings for Linux Agents in Operating System - Linux

What is best setup for SNMP settings for Linux Agents

Dave. — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:52:26 GMT

What is the best setting for SNMP settings (in snmpd.conf) for ProLiants running Linux (Red Hat, SUSE or Debian etc).

I have read that it is only worth enabling SNMP authentication traps if you are monitoring for them otherwise it is using unnecessary bandwidth.
I also read that for the agents to work fully they need to be configured locally. I assume that means they need to send traps to localhost AND also be enabled for that community string.
Thus would this example make sense, it is correct, can it be shortened or is it missing anything?

dlmod cmaX /usr/lib/libcmaX.so
rocommunity CCCCC ????????
rocommunity CCCCC !!!!!!!!
rwcommunity AnyCommunityStringY0uL!ke localhost
trapsink AnyCommunityStringY0uL!ke localhost
trapsink ??????? CCCCC
trapsink !!!!!!! CCCCC
trapcommunity CCCCC
authtrapenable 0
syslocation "Sitename"
syscontact "Site Helpdesk"

where
CCCCC is Read Only Community
AnyCommunityStringY0uL!ke is a more complicated RW Community string
???????? is IP address of CMS
!!!!!!!! is IP address of 2nd Management Station

Re: What is best setup for SNMP settings for Linux Agents

David Claypool — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:38:55 GMT

That works with one exception: there's no purpose to sending a trap to localhost unless there's an application that is running there to receive it...

Re: What is best setup for SNMP settings for Linux Agents

wahome — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:43:45 GMT

I have the same settings as Dave, but my linux server does not send traps to the hp sim server.

I cannot even connect to the linux server via the web browser.

I have installed hpasm and not hpsim. Finally, can I have both hpasm and hpsim installed on the same linux machine?

Re: What is best setup for SNMP settings for Linux Agents

David Claypool — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:18:32 GMT

Is it possible that SELinux or the firewall is preventing you?