Snmpd & mrtg

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SNMPD - Simple Network Management Protocol Daemon to respond to SNMP requests MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher

MRTG uses SNMPD to collect information on the Network Traffic of a Computer/ Router.

Contents 1 Setup Network Traffic Monitoring: 2 SNMPD Config on Client 3 MRTG Config on SERVER 4 Additional Info and Debugging 5 SNMP and APC UPSs

Setup Network Traffic Monitoring:

apt-get some tools and choose defaults:

apt-get install mrtg
apt-get install snmpd    //Daemon Storing Data
apt-get install snmp   //Daemon Collecting Data from various devices/servers

SNMPD Config on Client

Edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf and change the following:

com2sec paranoid   default         public
#com2sec readonly  default         public
#com2sec readwrite default         private
to:


#com2sec paranoid  default         public
com2sec  readonly  127.0.0.1       public
#com2sec readwrite default         private

Edit /etc/default/snmpd and change the following:

SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid 127.0.0.1'
to
SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid'

Restart the snmpd server:

/etc/init.d/snmpd restart

MRTG Config on SERVER

Edit /etc/mrtg.cfg and add/replace with the following:

# Global configuration
WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg
WriteExpires: Yes


#For every machine
Target[name-of-machine]: 2:public@127.0.0.1
MaxBytes[name-of-machine]: 1250000
Title[name-of-machine]:
PageTop[name-of-machine]:
<TABLE>
 <TR><TD>System:</TD><TD>kartbuilding on phidebian</TD></TR>
 <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD> <TD>Stephen Burke</TD></TR>   
 <TR><TD>Description:</TD><TD>Debian PC</TD></TR>   
 <TR><TD>Max Speed:</TD><TD>10 Mbits/s</TD></TR>   
 <TR><TD>Ip:</TD><TD>136.201.1.250</TD></TR> 
 </TABLE>
 #Above table html info to be in 1 space.
 

Run mrtg manually a few time to place logs - it will give errors on first 3-5 runs. There is an entry placed in /etc/cron.d for mrtg to take over then.

./mrtg -c /etc/mrtg.cfg

In the "Target" line you see the number 2 we found before, and in "MaxBytes" we have set how many bytes the device maximum can transfer (10Mbit * 1000000bit/Mbit / 8byte/bit = 1250000byte).

Additional Info and Debugging

snmpd listens on ipaddress:161 where 161 is udp. The following iptables firewall rule is needed:

iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 161 -j ACCEPT

Helpful Info To generate an Automatic mrtg config:

cfgmaker public@ipaddress >> /etc/mrtg.cfg

To check snmb Info:

snmpwalk -v 1 -OS -c public localhost

Information got from:

http://apt-get.dk/mrts/
http://www.netadmintools.com/art390.html
http://myitforum.com/articles/16/view.asp?id=3928
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mrtg.htm

SNMP and APC UPSs

No final configs have been written.

snmpwalk on a UPS will not reveal all the information. Try the following to get more information:

snmpwalk -v 1 -c public  Network_Name_of_UPS .1

Here are the relevant links (rare) which have been found:
https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/mrtg/2005-May/030094.html
http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/snmp/node13.html
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch23_:_Advanced_MRTG_for_Linux
http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/sarge/x3579.html