Installation : Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent : Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent on Solaris : Configuring snmpd.conf

Configuring snmpd.conf

By default, the SNMP queries (walk, get) can be executed from any remote machine without any changes to the snmpd.conf file. To quickly add a new community and client access, perform the following steps:

1.

Stop the SMA service by executing the following command:

# svcadm disable svc:/application/management/sma:default

2.

Add read-only and read-write community names.

a.

Add a read-only community name and client/hostname/ipaddress under "SECTION: Access Control Setup" in the /etc/sma/snmp/snmpd.conf file, as shown in the following excerpt:

#################################################
# SECTION: Access Control Setup
#This section defines who is allowed to talk to your # running SNMP Agent.
# rocommunity: a SNMPv1/SNMPv2c read-only access
# community name
# arguments: community
# [default|hostname|network/bits] [oid]
# rocommunity snmpclient 172.28.157.149
#################################################

 

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NOTE In Solaris 11 x86 add a read-only community name and client/hostname/ipaddress under "SECTION: Access Control Setup" in the /etc/net-snmp/snmp/snmpd.conf file as shown in the above excerpt.

b.

Add a read-write community name and client/hostname/ipaddress under "SECTION: Access Control Setup" in the /etc/sma/snmp/snmpd.conf file, as shown in the following excerpt:

#################################################
# SECTION: Access Control Setup
# This section defines who is allowed to talk to your # running
# snmp agent.
# rwcommunity: a SNMPv1/SNMPv2c read-write access
# community name
# arguments: community
# [default|hostname|network/bits] [oid]
# rwcommunity snmpclient 172.28.157.149
#################################################

 

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NOTE In Solaris 11 x86 add a read-only community name and client/hostname/ipaddress under "SECTION: Access Control Setup" in the /etc/net-snmp/snmp/snmpd.conf file as shown in the above excerpt.

 

3.

Start the SMA service by using the following command:

# svcadm enable svc:/application/management/sma:default

 

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NOTE Refer to the command man snmpd.conf for more information about configuring the snmpd.conf file.

 

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NOTE In Solaris 11 x86 we need to start the net-snmpd daemon service, by executing the following command:

# svcadm enable svc:/application/management/net-snmp