Installing SNMP on the monitoring server

Install your SNMP monitoring package on your monitoring server.

The following procedure is an example only. As environments and workloads vary, you must use your own SNMP expertise and resources to take advantage of SNMP monitoring.

In the following commands, use res-snmp as the username, replace sample_password with your chosen password, and replace RESILIENT_IP with the IP address of the SOAR Platform. You must use the exact same username and password as used when you created the SNMP user on the SOAR Platform.

Install SNMP software on the server that is to monitor the SOAR Platform. The name of the packages might vary depending on your operating system. The following example installs packages on an RHEL system.
sudo yum --noplugins install -y net-snmp
sudo yum --noplugins install -y net-snmp-utils
When installed, you can run the SNMP commands where you specify the user credentials, as shown in the following example:
snmpget -v 3 -u res-snmp -l authPriv -a MD5 -x DES -A sample_password -X sample_password RESILIENT_IP hrSystemUptime.0
To run a simpler version of the SNMP command, you can store the user credentials in a configuration file.
  1. Create the ~/.snmp directory, if it does not exist.
  2. Create the ~/.snmp/snmp.conf file with the following contents: 
    defSecurityName res-snmp 
defSecurityLevel authPriv 
defAuthType MD5
defPrivType DES 
defAuthPassphrase sample_password 
defPrivPassphrase sample_password 
defversion 3
When you create the configuration file, you can use the following commands to query the SOAR Platform.
# Get the system uptime:
snmpget RESILIENT_IP hrSystemUptime.0

# Get information about system storage:
snmptable RESILIENT_IP hrStorageTable