James,
Well it's no wonder I was confused!
I'll give this a try and report back.
Thanks a million for your help.
Dan
James Babiak <[email protected]> wrote:
>The snmp 'file' in /etc is actually just a symlink to /tmp/etc/smnp,
>which is supposed to be a directory containing the snmpd.conf file.
>
>The included snmp init script runs snmpd using /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf as
>the config file, which would actually be linked to the
>/tmp/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file. When the init script starts, it first
>checks to see if there is a configuration directory in the image (ie:
>/stat/etc/snmp), which I don't believe is the case unless you build it
>into a custom image. It will then look to see if the directory
>/mnt/kd/snmp exists, and if so, symlinks that to /tmp/etc/snmp. It's a
>bit circular, but it works.
>
>So if you want to enable snmpd, you will need to create a /mnt/kd/snmp
>directory, and then put your config file (snmpd.conf) in there. This
>way, when snmpd is executed, it will pull the config file like so:
>/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf -> /tmp/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf ->
>/mnt/kd/snmp/snmpd.conf
>
>So once you create the /mnt/kd/snmp directory and put your snmpd.conf
>file in there, run:
>service snmpd init
>which will create the second symlink and should start the service.
>
>You can also create a /mnt/kd/snmp/snmpd.options file that has the
>daemon startup options, otherwise it defaults to "-LS0-4d -Lf
>/dev/null".
>
>Keep in mind that the above instructions are simply how to get the
>Astlinux snmpd paths configured and start the daemon. I've never
>actually run it on my box, so I'm not sure how well (if at all) it
>works.
>
>--James
>
>
>
>On 05/04/2013 12:53 PM, Dan Ryson wrote:
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> I'm tinkering around with Zabbix. While I'm successfully using the
>> Zabbix agent to monitor the machine, I'd also like to monitor certain
>
>> Asterisk parameters such as shown in this Zabbix Template
>>
><http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+monitor+template+for+Zabbix>.
>
>> It looks like this is feasible using SNMP... That is, if I could
>just
>> get the SNMP daemon configured.
>>
>> When I start the SNMP daemon, it complains that it can't find a
>> configuration file, snmpd.conf. I see that there's an empty "snmp"
>> file (in /mnt/kd/asterisk and /etc) but even if I save my
>> configuration settings in this file, the SNMP daemon doesn't appear
>to
>> read it.
>>
>> What's the proper way to configure SNMP in AstLinux?
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
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