Installing SNMP Client for Proxmox nodes

Matt C

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To start we are going to need to install a number of libraries and packages to get the snmp client working with the plugins we will need to make the different data points be passable to cacti.

install apt -y install snmp snmpd libnet-snmp-perl snmptrapd


proxmox will have all those without the non-free repository, but if left permanently attached to system has over 500 package changes from defaul free systems.

Proxmox temp repository to install  " snmp-mibs-downloader " package to finish requirements for install

Add the following repository to /etc/apt/sources.list at the bottom, after installed remove the extra repository or just comment it out with #.
If you decide to just add the non-free repository to start, it will try to uninstall proxmox while trying to install snmp. So instead do it in the order above and go from there.

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main non-free

To configure your snmp community name and settings.

  • In  /etc/snmp/snmp.conf comment out #mibs :root
  • In /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf change to any location name and email address
sysLocation    "Server World Node01"
sysContact     "[email protected]"
  • Change the following to match, but instead of public in the non commented out line, replace with your community's name (unless leaving it as default).
#rocommunity  public default -V systemonly
#rocommunity6 public default -V systemonly
rocommunity public 192.168.1.0/24
  • Restart SNMPD and Finally verify status
systemctl restart snmpd
# replace [public] to the community name you set
snmpwalk -v 2c -c public node01 system
  • Go To Cacti and create a new device and select snmp v2 as option insert hostname as the devices ip or dns name. From there select metrics you want to collect from it.
  • It should show at the top in black text the device has connected.

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