Manage the SNMP monitoring

We can monitor the current virtual appliance status with SNMP. This status shows an SNMP agent, which can be queried by any SNMP manager or monitoring tools that support SNMP to obtain the status of the running virtual appliance.

When configured, the SNMP agent listens on all management interfaces.

The SNMP Monitoring function can monitor the virtual appliance in an IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment. Use the Agentless Monitoring for Linux OS agent to monitor a virtual appliance..

For more information about configuring the IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment and the Agentless Monitoring for Linux OS agent, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Knowledge Center. The following management information bases, or MIBs, are used by the SNMP agent:

SNMPv2-MIB TCP-MIB
SNMPv2-SMI UDP-MIB
SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
SNMP-MPD-MIB MTA-MIB
SNMP-TARGET-MIB DISMAN-EVENT-MIB
SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB
SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB UCD-SNMP-MIB
IF-MIB UCD-DLMOD-MIB
IP-MIB UCD-DISKIO-MIB
IPV6-MIB UCD-SNMP-MIB
IP-FORWARD-MIB NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB
NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB

  1. From the top-level menu of the Appliance Dashboard, click Monitor > Monitoring > SNMP Monitoring.

  2. On the SNMP Monitoring page, click Configure.

  3. In the Configure SNMP window, select the SNMP Protocol version that the agent must use. The choices are as follows.
    • Disabled
    • SNMPv1/SNMPv2c
    • SNMPv3

  4. In the Port field, enter the number that the SNMP agent must listen on. Alternatively, you can also change the port number with the range controller next to it. The default port number is 161.

  5. Select one of the following SNMP protocols.

    SNMPv1/SNMPv2c
    In the Community field, enter the name of the community that the SNMP manager uses to authenticate with the SNMP agent.

    SNMPv3
    Configure the following options to describe the user that accesses the SNMP agent.

    Option Description
    Security Level The security level of the user.
    Security User Enter the name of the user that accesses the SNMP agent.
    Auth Protocol From the Auth Protocol list, select the authentication protocol to use.
    Auth Password Enter the password to use for authentication. The password must be a minimum 8 characters in length.
    Auth Password (Confirm) Reenter the authentication password to confirm.
    Privacy Protocol From the Privacy Protocol list, select the privacy protocol to use.
    Privacy Password Enter the password to be used as a privacy passphrase. The password must be a minimum of 8 characters in length.
    Privacy Password (Confirm) Reenter the privacy password to confirm.

  6. Click Save Configuration.
  7. Optional: To reconfigure an existing SNMP Monitoring configuration, do these steps:

    1. From the SNMP Monitoring table, select a record.

    2. Click Reconfigure.

    3. In the Reconfigure SNMP window, edit the details.

    4. Click Save Configuration.
  8. Optional: To unconfigure an existing SNMP Monitoring configuration, do these steps:

    1. From the SNMP Monitoring table, select a record.

    2. Click Unconfigure.

    3. Click Yes to confirm the deletion.

Parent topic: Manage system settings for the virtual appliance