SNMP PINsafe How to Guide

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Contents 1 Overview 2 PINsafe Appliance Hardware Monitoring 3 Operating System SNMP 3.1 Adding a community string

Overview

SNMP can be used to monitor hardware and software. There are no PINsafe SNMP MIBS, but there are MIBS available for the OS and Apache Tomcat.

Also consider email alerting within the PINsafe Administration console or for appliances part of the MON process, see MON Service Monitor How to guide

PINsafe Appliance Hardware Monitoring

For hardware monitoring you should be able to use the standard DELL MIBs here

This makes it possible to monitor the RAID on a hardware appliance.

Operating System SNMP

SNMPD is pre-installed and the configuration file is located here: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

You can edit the file using WinSCP. Refer to the WinSCP How To Guide.

The current version supports SNMP v3

Adding a community string

Edit the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

The following can be edited as required:

 ## description
 sysname         Appliance
 sysdescr        PINsafe Appliance
 syslocation     WETHERBY, GB
 syscontact      root <sysadmin@localhost>
 
 # First, map the community name "public" into a "security name"
 #       sec.name        source          community
 com2sec local           localhost       private
 com2sec mynetwork       192.168.0.0/24  public

Examples:

 #        sec.name  source          community
 com2sec  local     localhost       private
 com2sec  mynet     10.10.10.0/24   public
 com2sec  public    default         public
 com2sec6 mynet     fec0::/64       public