How to do a generic snmpd configuration on Ubuntu hosts

[schof]

I'm installing snmpd on multiple linux hosts so that I can monitor them with Cacti.

I'm running Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. I've tried to set up a generic snmpd.conf file that I can use on multiple servers, but I've found that I need to specify the agentaddress with the IP address of the system.

The documentation says that it defaults to listening UDP on port 161 on all interfaces, but that does not seem to be true. To get it to listen to external interfaces, I have to add the following line to /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf:

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agentaddress 192.168.1.200:161

This works, but obviously, this needs to be changed for each system. Is anyone aware of a way to specify the agentaddress so that it simply listens on all interfaces? (Or just on eth0.)

I realize this isn't a purely Cacti problem, so my apologies if snmpd questions are frowned upon in this forum.


Schof

[Linegod]

Did you try 0.0.0.0:161?

[Linegod]

And are you sure it wasn't listening by default? What does a netstat say it is listening on?