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SNMP agent πŸ”—

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the snmp monitor type to collect metrics from SNMP agents.

This integration is available for Kubernetes, Windows, and Linux.

Note

This monitor doesn’t support MIB lookups.

Benefits πŸ”—

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

Installation πŸ”—

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:

  2. Configure the integration, as described in the Configuration section.

  3. Restart the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration πŸ”—

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

  1. Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.

  2. Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Example πŸ”—

To activate this integration, add the following to your Collector configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/snmp:
    type: telegraf/snmp
    ...  # Additional config

Next, add the monitor to the service.pipelines.metrics.receivers section of your configuration file:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/snmp]

Advanced configuration example πŸ”—

The following is a sample Smart Agent monitor configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/snmp:
    type: telegraf/snmp
    agents: "127.0.0.1:161"
    version: 2
    community: "public"
    fields:
        name: "uptime"
        oid: ".1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0"

The following is a sample Smart Agent monitor configuration using a discovery rule:

receivers:
  smartagent/snmp:
    type: telegraf/snmp
    discoveryRule: container_name =~ "snmp" && port == 161
    version: 2
    community: "public"
      fields:
        name: "uptime"
        oid: ".1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0"

Configuration settings πŸ”—

The following table shows the configuration options for the SNMP agent monitor:

Option

Required

Type

Description

host

No

string

Host name or IP address of the SNMP agent. Host and port are

concatenated and appended to the list of SNMP agents to connect to.

port

No

integer

Port of the SNMP agent host. Port and Host are concatenated and

appended to the list of SNMP agents to connect to. The default value is 0.

agents

No

list of strings

List of SNMP agent address and ports to query for information.

For example, 0.0.0.0:5555. If an address is supplied without a port, the default port is 161.

retries

No

integer

Number of retries. The default value is 0.

community

No

string

SNMP community to use. The default value is public.

maxRepetitions

No

uint8

Maximum number of iterations for repeating variables The default

value is 50.

contextName

No

string

SNMP v3 context name to use with requests.

secLevel

No

string

Security level to use for SNMP v3 messages: noAuthNoPriv,

authNoPriv, or authPriv. The default value is noAuthNoPriv.

secName

No

string

Name to used to authenticate with SNMP v3 requests.

authProtocol

No

string

Protocol to used to authenticate SNMP v3 requests: "MD5",

"SHA", or "" (default).

authPassword

No

string

Password used to authenticate SNMP v3 requests.

privProtocol

No

string

Protocol used for encrypted SNMP v3 messages: DES, AES,

or "" (default).

privPassword

No

string

Password used to encrypt SNMP v3 messages.

engineID

No

string

The SNMP v3 engine ID.

engineBoots

No

uint32

The SNMP v3 engine boots. The default value is 0.

engineTime

No

uint32

The SNMP v3 engine time. The default value is 0.

name

No

string

The top-level measurement name.

fields

No

list of objects (see below)

The top-level SNMP fields.

tables

No

list of objects (see below)

SNMP Tables.

The nested fields configuration object has the following fields:

Option

Required

Type

Description

name

No

string

Name of the field. The OID is used if no value is supplied.

oid

No

string

The OID to retrieve.

oidIndexSuffix

No

string

The subidentifier to strip off when matching indexes to other

fields.

oidIndexLength

No

integer

The index length after the table OID. The index is truncated

after this length to remove length index suffixes or nonfixed values. The default value is 0.

isTag

No

bool

Whether to output the field as a tag. The default value is

false.

conversion

No

string

Controls the type conversion applied to the value:

"float(X)", "float", "int", "hwaddr", "ipaddr", or "" (default).

The nested tables configuration object has the following fields:

Option

Required

Type

Description

name

No

string

Metric name. If not supplied the OID is used.

inheritTags

No

list of strings

Top level tags to inherit.

indexAsTag

No

bool

Add a tag for the table index for each row. The default value is

false.

field

No

list of objects (see below)

Specifies the tags and values to look up.

oid

No

string

The OID to retrieve.

The nested field configuration object has the following fields:

Option

Required

Type

Description

name

No

string

Name of the field. The OID are used if no value is supplied.

oid

No

string

The OID to retrieve.

oidIndexSuffix

No

string

The sub-identifier to strip off when matching indexes to other

fields.

oidIndexLength

No

integer

The index length after the table OID. The index is truncated

after this length to remove length index suffixes or nonfixed values. The default value is 0.

isTag

No

bool

Whether to output the field as a tag. The default value is

false.

conversion

No

string

Controls the type conversion applied to the value:

"float(X)", "float", "int", "hwaddr", "ipaddr", or "" (default).

Metrics πŸ”—

By default this monitor has no fixed metrics. Instead, it will create metrics based on your configuration. Look for tags as especified in the settings.

All metrics are custom.

Troubleshooting πŸ”—

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers

Available to prospective customers and free trial users

  • Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers .

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This page was last updated on Sep 18, 2024.