SNMP.CONF(5snmp) Net-SNMP SNMP.CONF(5snmp)NAMEsnmp.conf - configuration files for the Net-SNMP applications
DESCRIPTION
Applications built using the Net-SNMP libraries typically use one or
more configuration files to control various aspects of their operation.
These files (snmp.conf and snmp.local.conf) can be located in one of
several locations, as described in the snmp_config(5) manual page.
In particular, /etc/snmp/snmp.conf is a common file, containing the
settings shared by all users of the system. ~/.snmp/snmp.conf is a
personal file, with the settings specific to a particular user.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Several of these directives may contain sensitive information (such as
pass phrases). Configuration files that include such settings should
only be readable by the user concerned.
As well as application-specific configuration tokens, there are several
directives that relate to standard library behaviour, relevant to most
Net-SNMP applications. Many of these correspond to standard command-
line options, which are described in the snmpcmd(1) manual page.
These directives can be divided into several distinct groups.
CLIENT BEHAVIOUR
defDomain application domain
The transport domain that should be used for a certain applica‐
tion type unless something else is specified.
defTarget application domain target
The target that should be used for connections to a certain
application if the connection should be in a specific domain.
defaultPort PORT
defines the default UDP port that client SNMP applications will
attempt to connect to. This can be overridden by explicitly
including a port number in the AGENT specification. See the
snmpcmd(1) manual page for more details.
If not specified, the default value for this token is 161.
defVersion (1|2c|3)
defines the default version of SNMP to use. This can be over‐
ridden using the -v option.
defCommunity STRING
defines the default community to use for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c
requests. This can be overridden using the -c option.
dumpPacket yes
defines whether to display a hexadecimal dump of the raw SNMP
requests sent and received by the application. This is equiva‐
lent to the -d option.
doDebugging (1|0)
turns on debugging for all applications run if set to 1.
debugTokens TOKEN[,TOKEN...]
defines the debugging tokens that should be turned on when doDe‐
bugging is set. This is equivalent to the -D option.
16bitIDs yes
restricts requestIDs, etc to 16-bit values.
The SNMP specifications define these ID fields as 32-bit quanti‐
ties, and the Net-SNMP library typically initialises them to
random values for security. However certain (broken) agents
cannot handle ID values greater than 2^16 - this option allows
interoperability with such agents.
clientaddr [<transport-specifier>:]<transport-address>
specifies the source address to be used by command-line applica‐
tions when sending SNMP requests. See snmpcmd(1) for more infor‐
mation about the format of addresses.
This value is also used by snmpd when generating notifications.
clientRecvBuf INTEGER
specifies the desired size of the buffer to be used when receiv‐
ing responses to SNMP requests. If the OS hard limit is lower
than the clientRecvBuf value, then this will be used instead.
Some platforms may decide to increase the size of the buffer
actually used for internal housekeeping.
This directive will be ignored if the platforms does not support
setsockopt().
clientSendBuf INTEGER
is similar to clientRecvBuf, but applies to the size of the buf‐
fer used when sending SNMP requests.
noRangeCheck yes
disables the validation of varbind values against the MIB defi‐
nition for the relevant OID. This is equivalent to the -Ir
option.
This directive is primarily relevant to the snmpset command, but
will also apply to any application that calls snmp_add_var()
with a non-NULL value.
noTokenWarnings
disables warnings about unknown config file tokens.
reverseEncodeBER (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
controls how the encoding of SNMP requests is handled.
The default behaviour is to encode packets starting from the end
of the PDU and working backwards. This directive can be used to
disable this behaviour, and build the encoded request in the
(more obvious) forward direction.
It should not normally be necessary to change this setting, as
the encoding is basically the same in either case - but working
backwards typically produces a slightly more efficient encoding,
and hence a smaller network datagram.
SNMPv3 SETTINGS
defSecurityName STRING
defines the default security name to use for SNMPv3 requests.
This can be overridden using the -u option.
defSecurityLevel noAuthNoPriv|authNoPriv|authPriv
defines the default security level to use for SNMPv3 requests.
This can be overridden using the -l option.
If not specified, the default value for this token is noAuthNo‐
Priv.
Note: authPriv is only available if the software has been com‐
piled to use the OpenSSL libraries.
defPassphrase STRING
defAuthPassphrase STRING
defPrivPassphrase STRING
define the default authentication and privacy pass phrases to
use for SNMPv3 requests. These can be overridden using the -A
and -X options respectively.
The defPassphrase value will be used for the authentication
and/or privacy pass phrases if either of the other directives
are not specified.
defAuthType MD5|SHA
defPrivType DES|AES
define the default authentication and privacy protocols to use
for SNMPv3 requests. These can be overridden using the -a and
-x options respectively.
If not specified, SNMPv3 requests will default to MD5 authenti‐
cation and DES encryption.
Note: If the software has not been compiled to use the OpenSSL
libraries, then only MD5 authentication is supported.
Neither SHA authentication nor any form of encryption
will be available.
defContext STRING
defines the default context to use for SNMPv3 requests. This
can be overridden using the -n option.
If not specified, the default value for this token is the
default context (i.e. the empty string "").
defSecurityModel STRING
defines the security model to use for SNMPv3 requests. The
default value is "usm" which is the only widely used security
model for SNMPv3.
defAuthMasterKey 0xHEXSTRING
defPrivMasterKey 0xHEXSTRING
defAuthLocalizedKey 0xHEXSTRING
defPrivLocalizedKey 0xHEXSTRING
define the (hexadecimal) keys to be used for SNMPv3 secure com‐
munications. SNMPv3 keys are frequently derived from a
passphrase, as discussed in the defPassphrase section above.
However for improved security a truely random key can be gener‐
ated and used instead (which would normally has better entropy
than a password unless it is amazingly long). The directives
are equivalent to the short-form command line options -3m, -3M,
-3k, and -3K.
Localized keys are master keys which have been converted to a
unique key which is only suitable for on particular SNMP engine
(agent). The length of the key needs to be appropriate for the
authentication or encryption type being used (auth keys: MD5=16
bytes, SHA1=20 bytes; priv keys: DES=16 bytes (8 bytes of which
is used as an IV and not a key), and AES=16 bytes).
SERVER BEHAVIOUR
persistentDir DIRECTORY
defines the directory where snmpd and snmptrapd store persistent
configuration settings.
If not specified, the persistent directory defaults to
/var/lib/snmp
noPersistentLoad yes
noPersistentSave yes
disable the loading and saving of persistent configuration
information.
Note: This will break SNMPv3 operations (and other behaviour
that relies on changes persisting across application
restart). Use With Care.
tempFilePattern PATTERN
defines a filename template for creating temporary files, for
handling input to and output from external shell commands. Used
by the mkstemp() and mktemp() functions.
If not specified, the default pattern is /tmp/snmpdXXXXXX.
serverRecvBuf INTEGER
specifies the desired size of the buffer to be used when receiv‐
ing incoming SNMP requests. If the OS hard limit is lower than
the serverRecvBuf value, then this will be used instead. Some
platforms may decide to increase the size of the buffer actually
used for internal housekeeping.
This directive will be ignored if the platforms does not support
setsockopt().
serverSendBuf INTEGER
is similar to serverRecvBuf, but applies to the size of the buf‐
fer used when sending SNMP responses.
MIB HANDLING
mibdirs DIRLIST
specifies a list of directories to search for MIB files. This
operates in the same way as the -M option - see snmpcmd(1) for
details. Note that this value can be overridden by the MIBDIRS
environment variable, and the -M option.
mibs MIBLIST
specifies a list of MIB modules (not files) that should be
loaded. This operates in the same way as the -m option - see
snmpcmd(1) for details. Note that this list can be overridden
by the MIBS environment variable, and the -m option.
mibfile FILE
specifies a (single) MIB file to load, in addition to the list
read from the mibs token (or equivalent configuration). Note
that this value can be overridden by the MIBFILES environment
variable.
showMibErrors (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
whether to display MIB parsing errors.
strictCommentTerm (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
whether MIB parsing should be strict about comment termination.
Many MIB writers assume that ASN.1 comments extend to the end of
the text line, rather than being terminated by the next "--"
token. This token can be used to accept such (strictly incor‐
rect) MIBs.
Note that this directive is poorly named, since a value of
"true" will turn off the strict interpretation of MIB comments.
mibAllowUnderline (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
whether to allow underline characters in MIB object names and
enumeration values. This token can be used to accept such
(strictly incorrect) MIBs.
mibWarningLevel INTEGER
the minimum warning level of the warnings printed by the MIB
parser.
OUTPUT CONFIGURATION
logTimestamp (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Whether the commands should log timestamps with their error/mes‐
sage logging or not. Note that output will not look as pretty
with timestamps if the source code that is doing the logging
does incremental logging of messages that are not line buffered
before being passed to the logging routines. This option is
only used when file logging is active.
printNumericEnums (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -Oe.
printNumericOids (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -On.
dontBreakdownOids (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -Ob.
escapeQuotes (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -OE.
quickPrinting (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -Oq.
printValueOnly (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -Ov.
dontPrintUnits (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -OU.
numericTimeticks (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -Ot.
printHexText (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -OT.
hexOutputLength integer
Specifies where to break up the output of hexadecimal strings.
Set to 0 to disable line breaks. Defaults to 16.
suffixPrinting (0|1|2)
The value 1 is equivalent to -Os and the value 2 is equivalent
to -OS.
oidOutputFormat (1|2|3|4|5|6)
Maps -O options as follow: -Os=1, -OS=2, -Of=3, -On=4, -Ou=5.
The value 6 has no matching -O option. It suppresses output.
extendedIndex (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Equivalent to -OX.
noDisplayHint (1|yes|true|0|no|false)
Disables the use of DISPLAY-HINT information when parsing
indices and values to set. Equivalent to -Ih.
FILES
/etc/snmp/snmp.conf, /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf - common configuration
settings
~/.snmp/snmp.conf - user-specific configuration settings
SEE ALSOsnmp_config(5), read_config(3), snmpcmd(1).
4th Berkeley Distribution 29 Jun 2005 SNMP.CONF(5snmp)
