Re: snmpd.conf

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 12:18 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>  I configured snmpd.conf with localhost and worked fine.

What do you mean by "configured with ... localhost" ?
What is/are the exact line(s) you put into snmpd.conf?


>  But i don't know how to configure it by my eth0 IP address

You wouldn't normally configure this with the IP address of
the local system.  The access control settings are normally
configured with the address(es) that you want to query *from*.

>  may configure it other computer's eth0 IP?

Yes

>  If so, I can use the agent to monitor
> other computer or device.

No.  It doesn't work that way.
The agent running on a given system is what's used by *other*
systems to monitor this one.  If you want to monitor other
boxes, then there needs to be an agent running on each one,
and you'll use some form of management software to query them.


> One more silly question, if I want to monitor several computers,
> may I have to create as many agents as the computers i want to check,

Yes - one running on each computer you wish to monitor.
Remember that the agent is the *server* side of the standard
client-server model.

>  or add multiple hosts in just one agent?

Strictly speaking, this is technically possible in some
circumstances.  But I *STRONGLY* suggest you concentrate
on the standard approach (one box, one server), until you
are more familiar with SNMP.

Dave


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