Yeah, I've tried that. Didn't work. Maybe I did it wrong... Hmm...

In the default snmpd.conf file that Ubuntu installs, it says NOT to put
those lines in that file. So...

--David Reagan


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Adam Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not yet, but that might be something I have to do soon...
>
> Looking at the documentation I could find it seems like that just adds two
> lines to two files then restarts snmpd.
>
> ## OUTPUT ##
>
>
> adding the following line to /var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf:
>    createUser snmpv3user MD5 "snmpv3pass" DES
> adding the following line to /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf:
>    rouser snmpv3user
>
>
> If that is the case then surely there isn't any issue with using Ansible
> to edit the files directly and then (if changed) restart the service?
>
> Adam
>
> On Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:25:26 PM UTC-8, David Reagan wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I've been looking into managing snmp via ansible. Setting the
>> /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file is simple enough. Just a template call.
>>
>> It's setting up a snmp v3 user that has me stumped. To do so, I run
>> "net-snmp-config --create-snmpv3-user", then follow the prompts.
>>
>> I haven't tried it yet, but according to the help text,
>> > --create-snmpv3-user [-ro] [-A authpass] [-X privpass]
>>                          [-a MD5|SHA] [-x DES|AES] [username]
>>
>> I can just run a command to create the user directly without the prompts.
>> That works
>>
>> But I've never been comfortable with running a command like that every
>> time I run a playbook, and making some kind of init variable feels clunky
>> to me.
>>
>> So, does anyone have a better idea?
>>
>> Anyone working on a module for snmp?
>>
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