There are six steps to correctly configuring SNMP on your Citrix Xen hypervisor. These steps don’t require a system restart and are non-service affecting.
To start, we assume you’re running Xen v6.x or v7.x, and are logged into the Xen CLI as root.
1. Enable the SNMP daemon
Enable the snmpd daemon by typing-
chkconfig snmpd
2. Configure the SNMP service
Make a backup of the snmpd.conf file. The default snmpd.conf file contains a lot of useful documentation for more advanced implementations of SNMP.
# cp /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.backup
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