UCD-SNMP Tutorial -- Top

Note: Much of this tutorial requires ucd-snmp-4.2.2!, so make sure you get it before running the commands found in this tutorial.

Note: A new tutorial for net-snmp 5.0 and above is available as well. The commands is the ucd-snmp specific tutorial will not work as expected if you are using net-snmp and not ucd-snmp.

Introduction

Welcome to the net-snmp tutorial series. Here we hope to present to you various different tutorials that will help you learn all about the net-snmp package. This tutorial is not intended to be a replacement for the fine manual pages and other documentation (Frequently Asked Questions, etc). The tutorial gets more complex as you go on, so stop reading when get beyond what you really wish to know.

Currently, we do assume you understand at least a little bit about SNMP. Future tutorials will be written to address this need as well, hopefully.

The Tutorial

1. The net-snmp command set section will teach you all about the net-snmp command toolset and how to use the wonderful commands like snmpget, snmpwalk, snmpset, etc...
2. The mrtg section has some notes on using The Multi-Router Traffic Grapher" with the net-snmp demon
3. The net-snmp demon section (not finished) will explain how to use and run your net-snmp snmpd and snmptrapd programs.
4. The agent section will explain the steps involved in extending the agent to support a new MIB module. This is primarily aimed at a module within the main SNMP agent, but the same approach is also relevant to writing a module for use in a sub-agent.
5. Finally, the net-snmp toolkit section will get down to the nuts and bolts of using the net-snmp libraries to build an example SNMP application, agent mib module, and stand alone sub-agent. (Knowledge of C required).