[lm-sensors] getting lmsensors working with snmp

[D.J. Barrow]

Hi,
There is no documentation in the source code
about getting lm_sensors working with SNMP
or anywhere on the lmsensors website.
why is it a black art & not documented anywhere?
This is a serious ommission, surely SNMP monitoring
is important to your project.


The first link I can find which gives any real info on
SNMP with lmsensors is

http://people.redhat.com/harald/snmp-lmsensors/HOWTO-SENSORS-SNMPD.html

& this document is dated from 2000.

The following more recent link has some info on snmp with lmsensors
with pretty gui pictures included
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=11590
But there is no info whatsoever on the lmsensors website
about getting snmp going.

A colleague at work did the following,
I believe his instructions are incomplete
as I can't see how the snmp agent is
registered at the .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.16 OID address
>
> /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
>
>a line like
>
> # lmSensors
> view	systemview    included   .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.16
>
>and restart snmpd to allow you access to this oid from the localhost.
> 
> $ snmpwalk -v 2c -c public -m ALL localhost lmSensors
>
>should then start saying something.  My example above had udp:16000 instead of
>localhost as I had started a 2nd sndmp server on another port to test with.


Any help would be greatly appreciated
& whoever does your documentation should document this stuff.

Thanks,
D.J. Barrow


D.J. Barrow Linux kernel developer
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