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Enabling SNMP on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11

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

Solaris 10

  1. Edit community string, acl on config file: 
    /etc/sma/snmp/snmpd.conf
  2. By default SNMP service is installed and enabled on Solaris 10 with service name: sma
  3. 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/

Solaris 11

  1. Edit community string, acl on config file: 
    /etc/net-snmp/snmp/snmpd.conf
  2. 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
  3. MIB located in: /etc/net-snmp/snmp/mibs/

Testing SNMP

You can test using snmpwalk

# snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic IP_ADDRESS