You know...it would be nice to write a program that would use snmp to just scan through the local computer, grab OIDs...and then ask you which ones you wanted to make MIBs with.
Then you could just grab those with the graphing programs. I think that would be an awesome tool to build for linux.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:23 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] SNMP and OID/MIB/MRTG
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 21:46, Bob Hoffman bob@bobhoffman.com wrote:
Question 1- does snmpd have to run as a daemon, or only run
once so I
can get OID and MIBs from it?
Yes, it has to be running as a daemon.
Question 2- does anyone know the command in snmp to get the
required
OID and MIBs that MRTG needs to use? Or at least the name
of it? There
are a lot of poorly written man pages, but so far all of
them require
an MIB or OID to use the commands I have read.
Well, the OIDs that you will use on MRTG's config will depend on what you want MRTG to trace. Is it the network traffic? Is it the disk usage? Is it the CPU usage? Free memory? You can get MRTG to trace any of that by using the specific OIDs. You can use the "snmpwalk" program to see all the information that the daemon will have to offer in order to choose what you want to plot.
Question 3- since not going outside of the server, is there any security setting in some snmp config file that makes it
only look on
my local server and not allow others to use it or hack it?
Yes, you can restrict snmpd to answer only to the localhost. I suggest you start with a /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf that contains this line only:
rocommunity MySecretString 127.0.0.1
Replace "MySecretString" with a secret string not known to others, this string is what is called "community" in snmp-speak. This way, snmpd will answer only to queries made from the localhost, and only to someone who knows the right "community" secret string (like a password).
Question 4- all over the internet there are examples in
MRTG using all
sorts of made up names like 'crazyguy33@servername' and things like that for the cfg file. And alsoin the snmp forum posts, but no one really talks about where this name comes from other than it is assigned to your network device or something.
This is probably the community and the host. As I suggested restricting to localhost only, you will probably want to use something like "MySecretString@localhost", obviously replacing "MySecretString" with the one you chose.
The CentOS Wiki also has resources on MRTG, I suggest you look there as well: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MRTG
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