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Installing the SNMP agent on your Linux server

For your Linux server to be monitored you will need to install SNMP.  I used Ubuntu server 8.10 for this article.

Installation

Log on to your server.

1. sudo apt-get install snmpd
2. Backup your default snmpd.conf file
   
   1. sudo mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.bak
      
3. Create a new snmpd.conf file
   1. sudo vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
   2. Enter the following line...
   3. rocommunity public
4. Restart the snmpd service
   1. sudo /etc/init.d/snmpd restart

Alternative SNMP agent

You can also try net-snmp, I haven't tested this agent yet though.

Thanks for visiting,
Steven