Hi, There are a few problems here. > On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 00:00, Paul Rensing <ag...@cimetrics.com> wrote: > snmpd needs to load MIBS, otherwise it is pretty useless (or at lease > unfriendly). I have > never really understood why Debian ships with all MIBS blocked, but at least, > it needs a > clear and approved method of undoing that. I'm not sure why you think snmpd needs the MIBS. What feature is missing without them?
For example here is stock snmpd response. $ snmpwalk -v1 -c public localhost 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.6 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0 = STRING: "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" Now I agree, the snmp *client* output is pretty hard going. For one, you need to know the OID and secondly, the response is an OID. Here is the same snmpd daemon: $ snmpwalk -m SNMPv2-MIB -v1 -c public localhost sysLocation SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay You could use -m ALL too. This is much more friendlier. There are instructions in the file /etc/snmp/snmp.conf and also instructions in snmp-mibs-downloader on how to enable this for the client. - Craig