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FrançaisMonitoring SNMP Traps from ESX hosts in Opsview (Part 2)
This was done on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. The steps are probably the same on Debian systems.
1. Make sure you have snmpd installed. If you don’t, install it! Easy as pie.
aptitude install snmpd
2. Edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf and uncomment “master agentx”. 3. Edit /etc/default/snmpd (or /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf on newer systems):
TRAPDRUN=yes
TRAPDOPTS='-t -m ALL -M /usr/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/local/nagios/snmp/load -p /var/run/snmptrapd.pid'
SNMPDOPTS='-u nagios -Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p/var/run/snmpd.pid'
4. Edit /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf and add the following lines:
traphandle default /usr/local/nagios/bin/snmptrap2nagios
disableAuthorization yes
Please note that this will make the server listen to and handle any SNMP traps it receives, regardless of source. 5. Restart snmpd and snmptrapd:
/etc/init.d/snmpd restart
6. Edit the /etc/sudoers file to allow Opsview to restart snmpd and snmptrapd:
nagios ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/local/nagios/bin/snmpd reload
7. Test the permissions:
su - nagios
sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/snmpd reload
8. Exit back to the root user and restart opsview-web:
/etc/init.d/opsview-web restart
That’s all. Opsview should now be able to handle traps sent to it.
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Marcus Vejneke holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering and has worked in IT for almost 14 years. Marcus lives in Sweden and works as Sysadmin. Visit Marcus's blog.
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Comments
Any ETA on when to expect information regarding how to write a couple of service check handlers in Opsview to make sense of the traps? (As you mentioned at the beginning of this post).
Keep up the good work!