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Mastering Proxmox

You're reading from   Mastering Proxmox Master the skills you need to build a rock-solid virtualization environment with the all new Proxmox 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888243
Length 418 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Wasim Ahmed Wasim Ahmed
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Proxmox VE and Advanced Installation 2. Exploring the Proxmox GUI FREE CHAPTER 3. Proxmox under the Hood 4. Storage Systems 5. KVM Virtual Machines 6. LXC Virtual Machines 7. Network of Virtual Networks 8. The Proxmox Firewall 9. Proxmox High Availability 10. Backup/Restore VMs 11. Updating and Upgrading Proxmox 12. Monitoring a Proxmox Cluster 13. Proxmox Production-Level Setup 14. Proxmox Troubleshooting Index

Configuring SNMP in Proxmox

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a network management protocol used to monitor a wide variety of network devices. It is especially useful when a full network monitoring agent installation is not possible, such as switches, routers, printers, IP-based devices, and so on. Almost all network monitoring programs support some level of SNMP.

If the choice of monitoring a package does not have any agents, SNMP is the best option to monitor those devices. SNMP is fully configurable in Linux distributions, and since Proxmox is based on Debian, it inherits all the benefits of SNMP. To learn more about SNMP, refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol.

There are a few components of SNMP worth mentioning here since we will be using them to configure SNMP. They are as follows:

  • OID; Object Identifier
  • MIB; Management Information Base

OIDs

OIDs or Object Identifiers are objects that the SNMP queries to gather information from a device. An...

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