Configuring SNMP monitoring

Configure SNMP Monitoring so that you can monitor the status of the appliance with a monitoring solution that supports Simple Network Management Protocol. You can monitor the appliance in an IBM®Tivoli® Monitoring environment.

About this task

Use the Agentless Monitoring for Linux OS agent to monitor the appliance with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

For more information about configuring the IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment and the Agentless Monitoring for Linux OS agent, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Knowledge Center.

The following management information bases, or MIBs, are used by the SNMP agent:

SNMPv2-MIB
TCP-MIB
SNMPv2-SMI
UDP-MIB
SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
SNMP-MPD-MIB
MTA-MIB
SNMP-TARGET-MIB
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB
SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB
SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB
UCD-SNMP-MIB
IF-MIB
UCD-DLMOD-MIB
IP-MIB
UCD-DISKIO-MIB
IPV6-MIB
UCD-SNMP-MIB
IP-FORWARD-MIB
NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB
NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB

Procedure

From the top menu, select Manage System Settings > System Settings > SNMP Monitoring.
Type the port number that the SNMP agent must listen on in the Port field.
Note: The default port number is 161.
Select the SNMP Protocol that the agent must use.
- SNMPv1/SNMPv2c
  Type the name of the community that the SNMP uses to authenticate with the SNMP agent.
- SNMPv3
  Configure the following options to describe the user who accesses the SNMP agent.
  
  Security Level
  
  Select the security level of the user.
  
  User Name
  
  Type the name of the user who accesses the SNMP agent.
  
  Auth Protocol
  
  Select the authentication protocol to use.
  
  Auth Password
  
  Type the password to use for authentication.
  
  Confirm Auth Password
  
  Type the password to use for authentication.
  
  Priv Protocol
  
  Select the privacy protocol to use.
  
  Priv Password
  
  Type the password to be used as a privacy passphrase.
  
  Confirm Priv Password
  
  Type the password to be used as a privacy passphrase.
Click Save.