Monitoring Linux

Aloha....

Depending on what you expect to monitor here is a basic config to get the cpu/memory/root file size/network interface info.

1)  Save your old configuration file
      This is located in /etc/snmp as snmpd.conf
      cd /etc/snmp
      mv snmpd.conf snmpd.conf.old
      vi snmpd.conf

2)  Enter in a a read only community string (let's use public for sake of arguement)
     rocommunity public

3)  Configure Linux to start SNMP service on boot (you may have already done this but in order for the config to take, you need to restart the service)
     chkconfig snmpd on

4)  Start SNMP to load the config file
     service snmpd start (you should see Starting snmpd: [OK] if it is successful

5)  Go back to the Orion NPM (either the web interface or the client tool) and List Resources

In order to set the location and contact info add to the snmpd.conf file the following lines:

       syslocation location_of_your_device
       syscontact contact_information

HTH

Da Haole