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SNMP

SNMP#

Overview#

The ML Pack for SNMP collects metrics from any SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 capable device or application.

Prerequisites#

Your MIB files have to be located on the collector host, in the folder /usr/share/snmp/mibs/, or in a directory speficied in the MIBDIRS environment variable.

Open a session on your collector host, and copy the MIB file back to the container:

docker cp *.mib <container_id>:/usr/share/snmp/mibs/

Configuration#

Go in Configuration Management.

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Click on the + button to add a new configuration.

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Select the SNMP template you want to apply on your target devices. * The template Snmp Generic polls relevant MIB-2 statistics such as interface traffic * Other templates are vendor/technology specific (Cisco Devices, Cisco IP-SLA, Juniper Devices, ...).

Select the Collector on which you want this configuration to be deployed; and provide a Configuration Name that is meaningful for you. The Description is optional.

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In the template, enter the correct settings for your SNMP device(s).

There are several ways to specify an snmp metric: * By specifying the OID, example: oid = ".1.0.0.1.1" * By specifying the MIB variable, example: oid = "IF-MIB::ifDescr" Enter the device list, the snmp version and community strings as the example below:

  interval = "360s"
  agents = [ "yourSNMPDevice1:161","yourSNMPDevice2:161" ]
  version = 2
  community = "public"

Other configuration options are possible. Browse the template to discover them.

Once done, click Apply to start the monitoring.