Enabling SNMP on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11

Published 19 Sep 2013 Read time 36 sec(s) (4117 views). Solaris

This article provides the simple steps to enable SNMP under Solaris 10 and Solaris 11

Solaris 10

Edit community string, acl on config file:
```
/etc/sma/snmp/snmpd.conf
```
By default SNMP service is installed and enabled on Solaris 10 with service name: sma
After change config file you need to restart sma service for changes take effect.
```
# svcadm restart sma
```
MIBs are located in: /etc/sma/snmp/mibs/

Edit community string, acl on config file:
```
/etc/net-snmp/snmp/snmpd.conf
```
By default SNMP service is installed and disabled on Solaris 10 with service name: net-snmp so we need to enable it:
```
# svcadm enable net-snmp
```
MIB located in: /etc/net-snmp/snmp/mibs/

You can test using snmpwalk

# snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic IP_ADDRESS