January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
798 pages
20h 33m
English
The latest version of SNMP, version 3, is still not that common yet, and it is somewhat more complex than the previous versions. Device implementations can also vary in quality, so it might be useful to test your configuration of Zabbix against a known solution—Net-SNMP daemon. Let's add an SNMPv3 user to it and get a value. Make sure Net-SNMP is installed and that snmpd starts up successfully.
To configure SNMPv3, first stop snmpd, and then, as root, run this:
# net-snmp-create-v3-user -ro zabbix
This utility will prompt for a password. Enter a password of at least eight characters—although shorter passwords will be accepted here, it will fail the default length requirement later. Start snmpd again, and test the ...
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