snmpd woes

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
>I'm trying to get snmpd working on several systems with the goal of then 
>using MRTG to graph their network traffic.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to 
>figure out how to configure snmpd to listen on anything but localhost.

It's been about three years since I looked at this, but looking
at the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file on the system I was monitoring,
it required one com2sec line with the IP address of the machine
running mrtg, similar to the 192.168... line below.

#       sec.name  source                community
com2sec local     localhost             public
com2sec theworld  192.168.111.35        public

Then a section mapping theworld:

####
# Second, map the security names into group names:

#               sec.model  sec.name
group MyRWGroup any        local
group MyROGroup any        theworld

Bill
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