EV Observe - Configure SNMP on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
Last modified on 2023/06/26 10:03
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is an operating system for servers developed by Novell.
To use service templates for monitoring SLES applications, you must first configure the SNMP protocol.
Procedure: How to configure SNMP for SLES version 11
1. Log in to the host to be monitored as the root user.
2. Run the command below to install the Net-SNMP package for your SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution.
# yast2 -i net-snmp
3. Configure SNMP.
- Run the command below.
# snmpconf -i
- Enter the required information for the system prompts.
- Select all (Read in and merge the SNMP configuration files).
- Select option #1 (Create snmpd.conf).
- Select option #1 (Access Control Setup).
- Select option #3 (Setup a read-only access community).
- Specify the SNMP community.
- Press <Enter> (Allow all hosts and network addresses to access the community).
- Press <Enter> (Not restrict the community to any specific OID).
- Select finished.
- Select finished.
- Select quit.
4. Run the command below to restart the SNMP service.
# rcsnmpd restart