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.
- sudo apt-get install snmpd
- Backup your default snmpd.conf file
- sudo mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.bak
- sudo mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.bak
- Create a new snmpd.conf file
- sudo vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
- Enter the following line...
- rocommunity public
- Restart the snmpd service
- sudo /etc/init.d/snmpd restart
Alternative SNMP agent
You can also try net-snmp, I haven't tested this agent yet though.
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