Configure SNMP monitoring

Configure SNMP Monitoring so that we can monitor the status of the appliance with a monitoring solution that supports Simple Network Management Protocol. You can monitor the appliance in an IBMTivoli Monitoring environment.

The SNMP Monitoring page is not available in the LMI when the appliance runs in a Docker environment.

Use the Agentless Monitoring for Linux OS agent to monitor the appliance with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

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:

  1. From the top menu, select Manage System Settings > System Settings > SNMP Monitoring.

  2. Type the port number the SNMP agent must listen on in the Port field. The default port number is 161.
  3. Select the SNMP Protocol the agent must use.
    • SNMPv1/SNMPv2c

      Type the name of the community the SNMP uses to authenticate with the SNMP agent.

    • SNMPv3

      Configure the following options to describe the user who accesses the SNMP agent.

      Security Level
      Select the security level of the user.
      User Name
      Type the name of the user who accesses the SNMP agent.
      Auth Protocol
      Select the authentication protocol to use.
      Auth Password
      Type the password to use for authentication.
      Confirm Auth Password
      Type the password to use for authentication.
      Priv Protocol
      Select the privacy protocol to use.
      Priv Password
      Type the password to be used as a privacy passphrase.
      Confirm Priv Password
      Type the password to be used as a privacy passphrase.
  4. Click Save.

Parent topic: System settings