Installing Remote Network Management Services
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for extensible SNMP agents, and then defines master agents and subagents as
processing daemons. An AgentX protocol is defined for communication between an
AgentX-capable master agent and subagents. RFC2741 also defines elements of
procedure for an AgentX daemon to process SNMP protocol messages.
Traditional CMU SNMP management utilities are modestly refined and enhanced in
Net-SNMP. Most of the ftlSNMP extensions to Net-SNMP come through added MIB
definitions and correspondingly augmented configuration files for managing SNMP
agent and subagent daemons.
Installing Remote Network Management Services
The remote host system must have an SNMP system installed that supports SNMPv3
(an example is the Red Hat Net-SNMP distribution, which the following sample
procedure assumes).
Transfer the SRA-ftLinux-MIB.txt file to the host system and install it in
/opt/ft/mibs/SRA-ftLinux-MIB.txt
(or wherever the host system stores its
MIBs). You can use
ftp
to transfer the MIB file from the ftServer system to the host
system as long as the two systems can communicate with each other over a network.
Run these commands to set up MIB path environment variables and reinitialize
Net-SNMP:
# export MIBDIRS=/usr/share/snmp/mibs:/opt/ft/mibs
# export MIBS=ALL
# service snmpd stop
# service snmptrapd stop
# service snmpd start
# service snmptrapd start
The host SNMP manager now can execute commands managing a network-accessible
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system running the Linux operating system and the Net-SNMP
and ftlSNMP packages.
To receive traps, configure the
/etc/opt/ft/snmp/snmpd.conf
file on the ftServer
system, adding trapsink entries pointing to the host server running
snmptrapd
. The
configuration lines should look something like this:
trapcommunity
public
trapsink
192.168.33.75
public
trap2sink
192.168.33.75
public
In this sample, the community is
public
. This would not be the usual case on an
internet-accessible system.
