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Set up the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) service

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Turn on SNMP on your Smoothwall Appliance, so your monitoring platform can query it for status updates as part of your network monitoring.

  Note

To view information and statistics for the SNMP service, refer to your SNMP management tool’s documentation.

Before you begin

Check if the SNMP module is installed to see the SNMP configuration options in the user interface.

  1. Go to System > Maintenance > Modules.
  2. Find the SNMP module:
    • If the module is already installed, it will be listed under the Installed modules section.
    • If it is not yet installed, it will be listed under Available Modules. Select Install to install the module.

  Note

You must restart the Smoothwall Appliance after installing the module.

Create an access rule

Create a Smoothwall access rule for the SNMP (161, 199) service.

Turn on SNMP data sharing

  1. Go to Services > SNMP > SNMP.
  2. Select the Enabled checkbox.
  3. Edit the Community field to add your SNMP community string, or leave it as the default ‘smoothwallsnmp’.
  4. Select Save.