snmpd woes

James McDonald james
Thu Jun 21 19:01:46 PDT 2007


Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> I've got that:
> com2sec local     localhost           public
> com2sec mynetwork 10.31.0.0/24          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
>>     
>
> Got that too:
> group MyRWGroup v1         local
> group MyRWGroup v2c        local
> group MyRWGroup usm        local
> group MyROGroup v1         mynetwork
> group MyROGroup v2c        mynetwork
> group MyROGroup usm        mynetwork
>
>   
Reboot :) ;)




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