Lonnie,
Thank you for all the research and effort. I hope to be able to turn attention
back to SNMP later today after some outdoor projects tha are begging for
attention.
Dan
Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Looking at "/etc/init.d/snmpd" for documentation :-)
>
>Your config goes in "/mnt/kd/snmp/snmpd.conf" (which is symlinked to
>"/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf")
>
>snmpd is started with...
>
>OPTIONS="-LS0-4d -Lf /dev/null"
>snmpd $OPTIONS -u nobody -g nobody -p /var/run/snmpd.pid
>
>But, you can redefine OPTIONS, by setting OPTIONS="..." in the file
>"/mnt/kd/snmp/snmpd.options"
>
>$ service snmpd stop
>$ service snmpd init
>
>BTW, we have don't enable the netsnmp ( --with-netsnmp ) in asterisk,
>years ago this was a problem... but possibly this is OK now with our
>current build system. Though I know people monitor their Asterisk
>without using SNMP using Zabbix, that is about all I know.
>
>OK, I gave --with-netsnmp in asterisk.mk a try with this change in the
>build system...
>===================================================================
>--- package/asterisk/asterisk.mk (revision 6072)
>+++ package/asterisk/asterisk.mk (working copy)
>@@ -101,13 +101,14 @@
> --with-imap="$(BUILD_DIR)/uw-imap-2007e"
> endif
>
>-#ifeq ($(strip $(BR2_PACKAGE_NETSNMP)),y)
>-#ASTERISK_EXTRAS+=netsnmp
>-#ASTERISK_CONFIGURE_ARGS+= \
>-# --with-netsnmp="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr"
>-#endif
>+ifeq ($(strip $(BR2_PACKAGE_NETSNMP)),y)
>+ASTERISK_EXTRAS+=netsnmp
> ASTERISK_CONFIGURE_ARGS+= \
>+ --with-netsnmp="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr"
>+else
>+ASTERISK_CONFIGURE_ARGS+= \
> --without-netsnmp
>+endif
>
> ifeq ($(strip $(BR2_PACKAGE_MYSQL_CLIENT)),y)
>
>
>It now seems to work !
>
>pbx3 ~ # cat /etc/asterisk/res_snmp.conf
>…
>[general]
>; We run as a subagent per default -- to run as a full agent
>; we must run as root (to be able to bind to port 161)
>subagent = no
>; SNMP must be explicitly enabled to be active
>enabled = yes
>
>Loading Asterisk…
>...
> == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/res_snmp.conf': == Found
> Loading [Sub]Agent Module
> res_snmp.so => (SNMP [Sub]Agent for Asterisk)
> == Starting Agent
>
>pbx3 ~ # ss -ua | grep snmp
>UNCONN 0 0 *:snmp
>*:*
>
>And adds very little to our image.
>
>pbx3 ~ # ls -l /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_snmp.so
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19736 May 4 13:25
>/usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_snmp.so
>
>Here are the docs...
>
>Asterisk SNMP Support
>https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Simple+Network+Management+Protocol+(SNMP)+Support
>
>"SNMP support comes in two varieties – as a sub-agent to a running SNMP
>daemon using the AgentX protocol, or as a full standalone agent. If you
>wish to run a full standalone agent"
>
>If using a 'sub-agent' you would need the snmpd service running, when
>using 'a full standalone agent' in theory Zabbix could talk directly to
>Asterisk's SNMP without configuring the snmpd service.
>
>In the above example I did not need the snmpd service running
>
>So... bottom line should we now enable netsnmp in Asterisk ? It is
>disabled by default in res_snmp.conf and is quite small.
>
>Lonnie
>
>
>On May 4, 2013, at 11:53 AM, 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. 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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