Re: Trying to get SNMP & MRTG setup

2008/6/9 Shane Wesley <Shane.Wesley@intownsuites.com>:
> First I did:
> #aptitude install snmp snmpd mrtg lighttpd

So you are using a vendor-provided version of the software.

> Then checked it with
> #snmpwalk -v 2c -c public localhost system
>
> I get 'Timeout: No Response from localhost'

Did you actually start the SNMP agent?


> Looked in /etc/snmp and there is no snmpd.conf, only snmpd.conf-old.

What is in this file?

> I found snmpd.conf and it is under /var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf

An odd place for it...
What is in this file?


If you want to get started quickly,
try creating the file /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
containing

rocommunity public

and (re-)start the agent.

Dave

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Dave Shield wrote:
>> I found snmpd.conf and it is under /var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf
>
> An odd place for it...

Not really. It's the default path for net-snmp's persistent directory on Debian-based distributions.


+Thomas

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