snmp.conf - configuration files for the Net-SNMP applications

snmp.conf is the configuration file which define how the Net-SNMP applications operate. Tokens that can be put in them are described in the DIRECTIVES section below.

/etc/snmp/snmp.conf is a common file, shared by all users of the system.

~/.snmp/snmp.conf is a personal file, with configuration settings for a particular user.

Make sure you make these files readable only by the user if you are storing sensitive information in them like passphrases!

First, make sure you have read the snmp_config(5) manual page that describes how the Net-SNMP configuration files operate, where they are located and how they all work together.

mibdirs (mib-dirs|+mib-dirs)

Look for textual MIBs to parse in the list of ':' separated directories. If the directive value starts with a '+' it prepends this list to the front of the default directory list compiled into the application. Note that this value can be overridden by the MIBDIRS environment variable.

mibs (mib-tokens|+mib-tokens)

Specifies a ':' separated list of MIB tokens that represent textual MIB files that should be found and parsed. If the directive value starts with a '+' it prepends this list to the front of the default MIB token list compiled into the application. The special keyword of "ALL" forces all MIBs files found to be read. Note that the value specified here can be overridden by the MIBS environment variable.

mibfile file

Specifies a textual MIB file to read and parse, in addition to the list read from the MIBs token. Note that the value specified here can be overridden by the MIBFILES environment variable.

persistentDir directory

The directory where snmpd and snmptrapd stores their persistent data files.

tempFilePattern pattern

The file pattern used by snmptrapd to create temporary files. Example: /tmp/snmpdXXXXXX. Used by mkstemp() and mktemp() functions.

defaultPort port

The default port number that all SNMP applications and daemons should use.

defVersion (1|2c|3)

The default SNMP version to use.

defCommunity string

The default SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c community string to use.

defSecurityName string

The default SNMPv3 USM security name you want to use for SNMPv3 requests.

defContext string

The default SNMPv3 context name you want to use.

defPassphrase string

defAuthPassphrase string

defPrivPassphrase string

The default SNMPv3 USM passphrase(s) to use. defPassphrase will be used for both authentication and privacy pass phrases if it is specified.

defAuthType MD5|SHA

The SNMPv3 USM authentication type to use.

defPrivType DES

The SNMPv3 USM privacy type to use. Currently, DES is the only possible value.

defSecurityLevel noAuthNoPriv|authNoPriv|authPriv

The SNMPv3 default security level to use.

defAuthMasterKey 0xHEXSTRING

defPrivMasterKey 0xHEXSTRING

defAuthLocalizedKey 0xHEXSTRING

defPrivLocalizedKey 0xHEXSTRING

Defines the SNMPv3 keys to be used for SNMPv3 secure communications. 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 generated and used instead (which would normally has better entropy than a password unless your password is amazingly long). But to do this, you need to specify the hexadecimal keys directly to be used for authentication and encryption. These tokens let you do just that. They are equivalent to the short-form command line arguments -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, DES=16 bytes (8 bytes of which is used as an IV and not a key), and AES=16 bytes).

showMibErrors (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Whether or not to display textual MIB parsing errors when commands are run.

strictCommentTerm (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Whether or not MIBs that are parsed should be strict about comment termination. "--" terminates a comment if this is true. Many MIBs have broken comments in them, hence this option.

mibAllowUnderline (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Allow underline characters in MIBs (illegal).

mibWarningLevel integerValue

The minimum warning level of the warnings printed by the MIB parser.

logTimestamp (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Whether the commands should log timestamps with their error/message 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.

dontPrintUnits (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Equivalent to -OU.

printHexText (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Equivalent to -OT.

suffixPrinting (0|1|2)

If the value is 1, its equivalent to -Os and if the value is 2 it's equivalent to -OS.

"oidOutputFormat

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.

noRangeCheck (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Disables the validation of values that is done by snmpset before issuing the request to the agent. Equivalent to -Ir.

noDisplayHint (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Disables the use of DISPLAY-HINT information when parsing indices and values to set. Equivalent to -Ih.

dumpPacket (1|yes|true|0|no|false)

Whether the commands should dump packets by default.

doDebugging (1|0)

Turns on debugging for all applications run if set to 1.

debugTokens TOKEN[,TOKEN...]

The debugging tokens that should be printed. See the snmpcmd(1) manual page for debugging usage details.

serverRecvBuf integer

serverRecvBuf is used to specify the receive buffer size (in bytes) for the initialization of server sockets (eg. snmpd, snmptrapd). If the OS hard limit is smaller than serverRecvBuf the resulting buffer will be lowered so it is close to the hard limit. Some platforms may decide to increment the actual buffersize themselves for internal housekeeping. This directive will be ignored on platforms that don't support

serverSendBuf integer

Similar to serverRecvBuf, but this directive applies to the send buffer of server sockets.

clientRecvBuf integer

Similar to serverRecvBuf, but this directive applies to the receive buffer of client sockets (eg. snmpget).

clientSendBuf integer

Similar to serverRecvBuf, but this directive applies to the send buffer of client sockets.

/etc/snmp/snmp.conf, /etc/snmp/snmp.conf.local - common configuration settings ~/.snmp/snmp.conf - user-specific configuration settings

snmp_config(5), read_config(3), snmpcmd(1).