Required Prerequisite: Configure the Isilon SNMP Service Version 10.0.01

The Isilon Data Collector requires the Isilon SNMP service to be running. SNMP data is collected using the sudo snmpbulkwalk command in an SSH session. This does not require any additional ports to be opened for SNMP.

1. In the Isilon administrative web interface, Access Management/Users, select Cluster Management > SNMP Monitoring to enable/configure SNMP. Note that the SNMP configuration is specific to an SNMP version.

SNMP v1 and v2c only

• Enable access:

• If SNMP v2c is allowed, then the read-only community string must be set.

SNMP v1, v2c, and v3

• Enable access:

• When SNMP v2c is allowed, the read-only community string must be set.

• When SNMP v3 is allowed, the read-only user and SNMP v3 password must both be set. The SNMP password for Isilon must be at least 8 characters long.

SNMP v3 is allowed, but SNMP v2c is not allowed

• Enable access.

• When SNMP v3 is allowed, the read-only user and SNMP v3 password must both be set. The the SNMP password for Isilon must be at least 8 characters long.

• The following additional configuration is required at the command line, on each cluster node that is configured in the Data Collector policy.

1. Log in to the node as root and change to the root user home directory.

# cd /root

2. Create the .snmp directory and make it accessible only to the root user.

# mkdir .snmp

# chmod 700 .snmp

# ls -ld .snmp

drwx------ 2 root 512 Sep 18 15:00 .snmp

3. Modify or create.snmp/snmp.conf, using nano or another editor, to add the following line, replacing <snmp v3 password> with the password entered in the SNMP v3 Settings.

defAuthPassphrase <snmp v3 password>

4. Save .snmp/snmp.conf and make it accessible only to the root user.

# chmod 600 .snmp/snmp.conf

# ls -l .snmp/

total 1

-rw------- 1 root 129 Sep 18 15:02 snmp.conf