Questions tagged [snmp]
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is an Internet-standard protocol for monitoring and configuring devices on IP networks.
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Why does snmp fail to use its own MIBs?
I've done a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS, and installed the snmpd and snmp packages.
If I type:
snmpwalk -m ALL -v2c -c public localhost 1.3
I get swathes of errors, of the form:
Cannot adopt ...
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Is SNMP still used widely as of 2015?
A lot of things about SNMP seemed cumbersome to me even 15 years ago. One example is the concept of MIB being a local resource to "make sense" of the otherwise numeric OIDs.
Has SNMP been modernized ...
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Looking for a good SNMP Browser to run under Windows [closed]
I used to use Getif for poking around inside SNMP results from servers and devices. However it no longer works with Windows 7 and 64-bit.
I am looking for hopefully an open source bit of software ...
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Solution to route/proxy SNMP Traps (or Netflow, generic UDP, etc) for network monitoring?
I'm implementing a network monitoring solution for a very large network (approximately 5000 network devices). We'd like to have all devices on our network send SNMP traps to a single box (technically ...
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SNMP Deprecated in Windows Server 2012
According to Technet's Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012, SNMP is being depreciated:
SNMP is deprecated. Instead, use the Common Information Model (CIM),
which is supported by ...
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How do I passively monitor the Windows Event Log?
How can I monitor the Windows Event Log remotely such that I will be informed automatically when certain events occur?
There are plenty of active monitoring solutions, but they require human ...
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SNMP MIBs on Ubuntu - error in MIBs
I'm concerned that the definitive set of MIB files for Ubuntu seems to have syntactic errors. Am I using the wrong MIBs?
I have used
sudo apt-get install snmp-mibs-downloader
sudo download-...
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Monitor a Windows Server using SNMP
How hard can this be? I want to get the current CPU performance from a remote Win 2k3 machine. I need to use SNMP because the machine is behind a firewall.
Assumptions:
I understand networking/can ...
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Is anyone using an SNMP and/or WMI poller to push custom metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, and if so how?
Amazon CloudWatch has a decent console, and an alarm system which uses Amazon SNS for notifications.
Originally it only gave you AWS metrics, e.g. EC2 instance CPU utilization.
Recently they added ...
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How to find all the snmp enabled devices in my network?
I want to find all the snmp enabled devices in my network, I got something like how it works in a agent and manager architecture.
I got net-snmp library to create a simple application to get the snmp ...
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Monitor DELL hardware on VMware ESXi 5.5 server
Despite researching this topic quite a bit online (to be fair I'm not a full time sysadmin) I'm unable to figure this out.
We have a bunch of VMWare ESXi 5.5 servers, some of which are integrated ...
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How can I get FreeNAS and pfSense to report more using SNMP?
I have two servers which run variants of FreeBSD: One is a pfSense router and one is a FreeNAS 8 server. Both these servers run SNMP, and I am collecting and graphing their information using a third ...
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Is SNMP v3 supported in Windows Server 2016?
Hello serverfualt members,
I have researched this very question and have made the following discoveries:
Windows 2003 Supports:
• SNMPv2x
Windows 2008 Supports:
• SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c
Windows ...
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What is the impact of disabling a printer's checkbox for "SNMP Status Enabled" with or without a print server inline? [closed]
To harden SNMP security one must deviate from the default get community string of "public". Once that is done, as well as disabling any remaining get community strings of "public" such as HP units, ...
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SNMP - So I have a MIB. Now What?
I can't seem to get my head wrapped around the purpose of a MIB. I have a collection of ~20 MIB files that were supplied to me by the vendor, but what do I do with them?
I also have a few OID's that ...
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SNMP - What are .mib files used for, and why are there many of them for a single printer?
I am investigating methods of monitoring particular stats with printers. I am not very knowledgeable yet, and was just curious what .mib files are used for and why there are many of them for a printer?...
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SNMP service security tab is missing - Windows Server 2012 R2 - DC
I have to configure the security settings for the SNMP-Service on a Windows Server. But they are missing!
Here are the facts:
OS: Windows Server 2012 R2
I installed the SNMP feature and I believe, ...
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SNMPD not binding correctly
OS: Debian 5.0.3
SNMPD Version: 5.4.1
I have the following two lines in my snmpd.conf file:
interface eth0agentaddress udp:161
I'm getting the following errors in my syslog:
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Is there a way to share S.M.A.R.T. data over SNMP?
Is there a way to share S.M.A.R.T. data over SNMP? I'd like to be able to make cacti graphs of it and hook it up to Nagios.
What I want to do is be able to get some statistics on my harddisks ...
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SNMP differences in ifInOctets vs ifHCInOctets values
I'm trying to graph network usage on my router for a specific interface using data from SNMP. I know that ifInOctets/ifOutOctets is only 32 bit and will overflow for high speeds and make my graphs ...
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What can SNMP be useful for in a small network?
I have been administering servers and clients in small business offices, and have never used SNMP. But I have read about it and it looks interesting. As what I understand, it is mostly useful if you ...
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Accessing temperature data on ESXi5.1?
For ESXi5.1 (VMWare vSphere) images, I can see temperature data on the vSphere user interface (under Monitor / Hardware Status). I tried scouring the available snmp data using snmpwalk, but can't find ...
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Computer controlled winch
It was a long time coming but I've just had AC installed in my server room. I've also purchased a MiniGoose II from ITWatchDogs which I can't say enough about. So I'm covered by cooling, and I'll be ...
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Can I give my own MIB any OID that I want? Is there a convention to application MIB OID?
I created a scalar MIB for my application, monitor request_queue_size.
I followed the write MIB tutorial . The OID there is a long hierarchical OID.
I wonder if I can give a short hierarchical OID ...
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Query total page count via SNMP HP Laserjet
I was asked to get hold of the total pages counts for the 100+ printers we have at work. All of them are HP Laser or Business Jets of some description and the vast majority are connected via some ...
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How to calculate CPU % based on raw CPU ticks in SNMP
According to http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/mibs/ucdavis.html#scalar_notcurrent ssCpuUser, ssCpuSystem, ssCpuIdle, etc are deprecated in favor of the raw variants (ssCpuRawUser, etc).
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How do I remotely install, configure and maintain SNMP?
I'm looking to remotely install the SNMP and SNMP WMI Provider services on Windows Server 2008 R2, configure specific options for the Agent, Traps, and Security tabs, then make sure these services and ...
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Simulate SNMP traps to test surveillance
I'm trying to use Net-SNMP on Windows to emulate a trap that should trigger an alarm on our surveillance system.
This is the setup:
Windows 7 client that sends the trap
Net-SNMP as software for ...
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How do I poll the ARP table with an SNMP OID?
When you need to poll the ARP table of a device, conventional wisdom is to use ipNetToMediaPhysAddress or atPhysAddress; however, both of these OIDs are deprecated according to Cisco's documentation.
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snmptt not translating traps, even with translate_log_trap_oid=1
I am having some trouble configuring snmptt to properly translate snmp traps.
The following is a problem:
/etc/snmp/snmptt.conf reflects:
EVENT fgFmTrapIfChange .1.3.6.1.4.1.12356.101.6.0.1004 "...
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How do I collect SNMP readings from intermittently-connected sites?
I am collecting SNMP data on-site for a number of systems, currently using Cacti. These systems are spread on a number of sites that aren't always connected to internet, but I also need to centralize ...
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Is there a good way to programmatically configure VLANs on a managed switch?
My situation is that my company makes a product that (currently) requires the user to set up a dozen or so VLANs on a managed switch that is dedicated to the exclusive use with our product.
Currently,...
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how to get interface traffic snmp information for routers ( cisco, zte, huawei ...)?
I have cisco, zte, huawei routers..How can i get the traffic information of every interfaces of these routers. I donot have mib file of zte and huawei. So, i want a generic mib file which can monitor ...
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How Do I Install Net-SNMP on Windows??? (without visual studio)
I downloaded the file from sourceforge and unzipped it with 7-zip. When I open the folder there is no "install.exe" or anything like that. Believe it or not there are no tutorials on this that I can ...
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APC Smart-UPS: remote power shutoff?
Given:
A server room containing about two dozen rackmount servers and a PBX.
About a dozen APC Smart-UPS 2200s providing power to this equipment.
A fire suppression project requiring immediate ...
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Monitoring Bandwidth Usage (Per Internal IP) - Cisco ASA 5505
I manage a small network with a Cisco ASA 5505 and a shared DSL connection. I would like to be able monitor the bandwidth usage of the various users/devices on my network (by IP address). Can I do ...
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How to disable version 1 and version 2c in snmpd?
Because I just use snmp v3 and want to disable version 1 and version 2c in snmpd.
How can I do this?
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snmpwalk Unknown Object Identifier
I have a device with snmp configured and gives lots of result for
snmpwalk -v2c -c public 1.1.1.1
but when i querry a particular section like system or interface it fails as below .... Is there a ...
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Hardware checks for Dell R820 Servers through Nagios using SNMP
We use Nagios for monitoring. Is there a way to create hardware checks using SNMP MIB for R820 servers running ESXi5.x on them? Right now we are using this python plugin:
current python plugin
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HP ProLiant Gen8 Health Agents and EL6.x - cpqHoMibHealthStatusArray has changed to the value: x
I've noticed that my HP ProLiant Gen8 servers report the following message via email to root (or the destination configured in /opt/hp/hp-snmp-agents/cma.conf) upon restart.
Trap-ID=11020
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Changed guest vNIC to VMXNet3, can't do SNMP against Cisco ASA devices
Got a head-scratcher here. Either I've found a Windows and/or VMware bug, or I've missed something stupendously simple. [Spoiler - it was stupendously simple.]
Our VMware environment is ESXI 5.5. We ...
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SNMP equivalent for show ip route?
I'm new to SNMP. Is there an equivalent in SNMP to "show ip route" on a Cisco 10K router?
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Can Zabbix alert me when an SNMP device does not respond?
Zabbix is capable of monitoring SNMP-capable devices, and even displays their status in its web interface:
The green icon indicates that Zabbix is receiving data.
The red icon indicates that Zabbix ...
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SNMP bytes received disagrees with ifconfig
SNMP ifInOctets = 2145342796 - about 2GB.
ifconfig: RX bytes:174302710687 (174.3 GB)
Interestingly, the sent bytes agree almost perfectly:
ifOutOctets: 1002415050 - about 1GB
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Checking for read only file systems remotely
I need to remotely periodically check if a Linux file system is mounted read only on lots of servers. The only tools at my disposal in this instance are the usual CLI scripting languages (BASH/Perl/...
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Why do SNMP agents need MIB files?
After reading up on SNMP and some of the questions help here I think understand the agent role as a SNMP service to device (Like SQL, it is an API to storage).
When you execute a SQL query the SQL ...
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Linux ifIndex persistence for SNMP
We are using OpManager to montior interface devices on remote linux boxes. These boxes have VLANs that we use to collect information about the networks that are being trunked to the boxes. For ...
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SNMP - Value of CPU processor load not reflecting reality
Trying to plot CPU load on my server, with the following hardware: ProLiant DL360p Gen8 (same behavior on ProLiant DL360 G7).
The machine is running VMWare ESXi5.1
To create a CPU spike I run dd if=/...
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Which SNMP variables to diagnose/characterise wifi congestion?
I'm preparing for a load test of a classroom wifi system. The pupils all turn on their laptops at the start of the lesson, which launches the web browser and then they start the lesson - which ...
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Graphite SNMP Counter transforms
I'm using graphite version 0.9.10 to read ifHCInOctets and ifHCOutOctets, which I'm polling with the collectd snmp and graphite_write plugins; I'm using collectd version 5.1.0.
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