Install and Enable SNMP on Centos 6

Posted on by Jordansphere

1)  Check you have net-snmp-utils installed 

# yum list installed | grep net-snmp

If not then install them: 

# yum install net-snmp-utils

 

2) Configure SNMP by editing the snmpd configuration file. Firstly take a backup of the current file 

# mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/OLD-snmpd.conf

Now edit the new file. 


# vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

rocommunity     public  172.17.19.100
syslocation  "Jordansphere Towers"

 

3) Start the SNMP service 

# /etc/init.d/snmpd start

 

4) You can test this using snmpwalk. In this example I am testing from my Cacti server: 

# snmpwalk -c public -v 2c 172.17.19.79

(Note the target server is 172.17.19.79)