Thank you Wes & Dave it is good advice. What I haven't explained is that I have this PC setup on an isolated network . I am really trying to digest Net-SNMP in smaller chunks (the ole divide and conquer bit ) so I went with the simple rwcommunity public. I will change the snmpd.conf file to be rwcommunity <somthing unique>.
I did a make clean, then the sequence ./configure, make and make install. Dave thank you for pointing out to look at exactly what the error was, and sending along the ldd command suggestion. The error returned by snmpd was pointing to the shared library libnetsnmp.so.25 which wasn't there.. Maybe(???) when I did the first ./configure --with-mib-modules-host I tripped myself up ... newbie grasping at straws there. Well now the snmpd --version, snmpget ---version are returning what's expected. I am still getting timeouts when I poll the localhost though. I know when I followed the instructions in "Essential SNMP" for Net-SNMP windows agents I needed to start the agent after the package was installed and registered. There is one sentence in the same book in the section "Net-SNMP for Unix" that states "when the agent is started" . Is there something similar for Ubuntu? Thanks for your patience with this newbie. Wes Hardaker <[email protected]> 02/22/2011 10:50 AM To Dave Shield <[email protected]> cc [email protected], [email protected] Subject Re: Ubuntu: Different paths and where to look? >>>>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:02:26 +0000, Dave Shield <[email protected]> said: >> The commands >> "snmget -v2c -c public localhost system.sysUpTime" and "snmpwalk -v2c -c >> public localhost" both return "Timeout: No Response from localhost" even >> though there is a snmpd.conf file, with "rwcommunity public", DS> I *STRONGLY* suggest that you amend this to read "rocommunity public" DS> rather than using "rwcommunity". Oh, yeah... Well *I* STRONGLY suggest he uses something completely different than the community "public". [there are huge numbers of hacker tools out there that try and use the "public" keyword when probing devices] -- Wes Hardaker Please mail all replies to [email protected]
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