Enabling SNMP (SMA - System Management Agent) under Solaris 10

Monitoring · Solaris
SNMP · Solaris

Installation

Install SUNWsmaS, SUNWsmagt, SUNWsmcmd, SUNWsmdoc, SUNWsmmgr

Configuration

cd /etc/sma/snmp
cp snmpd.conf cp snmpd.conf snmpd.conf.bak-`date +%F`
vi snmpd.conf
change rocommunity (by default set to public) Change syslocation and syscontact to something useful e.g.

From

syslocation  "System administrators office"
syscontact  "System administrator"

To

syslocation  "Test x86 Server on Floor 2"
syscontact  "monitoring@example.com"

Start or restart SMA service

svcadm restart svc:/application/management/sma:default # Restart
svcadm enable svc:/application/management/sma:default # Start

Test from remote server

pcanham@jafar:~$ snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 192.168.2.9 sysDescr.0
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: SunOS dbman.work.toon-net.local 5.10 Generic_127112-11 i86pc
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