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 with 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.

Note

To learn more about SNMP, refer to  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol.

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

• Object Identifier (OID) 
• Management Information Base (MIB)

Object Identifiers

OIDs are objects that SNMP query to gather information from a device...