Observium CentOS Client Configuration

The following instructions are to be completed on the client and not the Observium server.

Install net-snmp

yum -y install net-snmp
systemctl enable snmpd

snmpd

vi /etc/sysconfig/snmpd

Add the line

OPTIONS="-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid"

snmpd.conf

vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

add the line

view    all           included   .1

change the line

access  notConfigGroup ""      any       noauth    exact  systemview none none

to

access  notConfigGroup ""      any       noauth    exact  all none none

add to the end of the file

#This line allows Observium to detect the host OS if the distro script is installed
extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.1 distro /usr/bin/distro

distro

scp root@observium.mycomputer.com:/opt/observium/scripts/distro /usr/bin/distro

restart snmpd

systemctl start snmpd