[Scottish] SNMP

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew Berry
Title: SNMP






Hi All,


I'm trying to setup MRTG on my Debian box but I'm not having much joy. I figured out it's the SNMP settings on my router.

Via the web interface of my USR Broadband router I have the following options:-


Enable SNMP - Local 

Enable SNMP - Remote

Get Community

Set Community


Can anyone advise me what these settings should be?


Thanks,


Andrew





Re: [Scottish] SNMP

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew Back
At a guess the enable options set whether you can access SNMP via the
local network (private) and the Internet. So I'd guess you want to enable
local SNMP. And you'd need to enable remote if the box running MRTG lives
elsewhere on the Internet.

The community options set a name that is required to access SNMP, in
effect a password. SNMP isn't terribly secure.. The GET option is the
community/password to be used for reading (metrics etc). The SET community
is the one used for setting parameters. I'd set them both and to different
strings. And then MRTG will need to be told what the string used for GET
community is.

Andrew


Andrew Back
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Andrew Berry wrote:

 Hi All,

 I'm trying to setup MRTG on my Debian box but I'm not having much joy.  I
 figured out it's the SNMP settings on my router.

 Via the web interface of my USR Broadband router I have the following
 options:-

 Enable SNMP - Local
 Enable SNMP - Remote
 Get Community
 Set Community

 Can anyone advise me what these settings should be?

 Thanks,

 Andrew


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