Description

This connector discovers the enclosure and the Ethernet ports of a system equipped with an MIB-2 standard SNMP Agent.

This connector supersedes:

• LinuxIPNetwork^[2]
• LinuxIfConfigNetwork^[3]

hardware^[4] linux^[5]

Source^[6]

Target

Typical platform: Any system with SNMP

Operating system: Linux

Prerequisites

Leverages: MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agent

Technology and protocols: SNMP

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t linux -c +MIB2Linux --snmp v2c --community public

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: linux
        connectors: [ +MIB2Linux ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          snmp:
            version: v2c # Read documentation for v1, v2c and v3
            community: public # or probably something more secure

Connector Activation Criteria

The MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agent - Network Interfaces - Linux connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• An SNMP Get-Next on the OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1 must return a value in the same subtree

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