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SupportAssist Enterprise Version 1.0 User's Guide

Installing Net-SNMP (Linux only)

Prerequisites

Ensure that you are logged in to the device with a user account that has root privileges.

About this task

SupportAssist Enterprise receives alerts that are forwarded from remote devices through an SNMP agent. Net-SNMP consists of a suite of SNMP tools, including an SNMP agent. On devices running Linux operating systems, Net-SNMP must be installed to allow SupportAssist Enterprise to receive alerts.

Steps

  1. Open the terminal window on the device running the Linux operating system.
  2. Type the following commands based on the operating system:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and VMware ESX: yum install net-snmp
    • Oracle Linux: rpm -ivh net-snmp-x.x-xx.x.x.xxx.x86_64.rpm, where x.x-xx.x.x.xxx.x represents the version number included in the rpm file name.
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server:
      1. zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/net-snmp:factory/SLE_12/net-snmp:factory.repo
      2. zypper refresh
      3. zypper install net-snmp

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