Setup guide

SNMP
Montage is an SNMP-enabled device. An SNMP agent is running on Montage that provides
some standard SNMP system monitoring data to an SNMP management application.
There are thousands of SNMP management applications, each having very different ways of
aggregating and displaying SNMP data, and many are very elaborate. Outlining the specific
configuration processes of individual SNMP applications is beyond the scope of this article. The
intent of this article is to provide some of the system monitoring information that can be gathered
from Montage by an SNMP application. This article assumes you are familiar with network
monitoring via SNMP and familiar with terms such as ‘Community String,’ ‘Management
Information Base’ (MIB), and ‘Object Identifier’ (OID).
SAFARI Montage provides read-only access via the SNMP V1 and V2c protocols. The
Community String you will enter into your SNMP management application is ‘public.’
We do not publish or maintain a MIB specific to SAFARI Montage. It is left as an exercise for
the Systems Administrator to choose which data they are interested in.
The four general MIBs that encompass the OIDs accessible on a SAFARI Montage server:
• HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
• RFC1213-MIB
• SNMPv2-MIB
• SNMPv2-SMI
Open each of these MIBs and you will see over 1,300 OIDs available. Some examples of
monitoring data provided:
• System Information (Contact, Location, Name, etc.)
• Uptime
• Network Interfaces
• Partitions (Drive Capacities and Usage)
• Memory
• Processes
• Sockets
• Network Connections
There are two objects specific to the SAFARI Montage software (rather than the hardware or
OS):
• syscontact - Email address if the Montage Admin user