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...
