Setting up SNMP for external monitoring services

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the standard way to monitor all your network devices. You can use Chef to install the SNMP service on your node and configure it to match your needs.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have a cookbook named my_cookbook and that the run_list of your node includes my_cookbook, as described in the Creating and using cookbooks, section in Chapter 1, Chef Infrastructure.

Create your Berksfile in your Chef repository including my_cookbook:

mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl Berksfile

cookbook 'my_cookbook', path: './cookbooks/my_cookbook'

How to do it...

Let's change some attributes and install SNMP on our node:

  1. Add the dependency on the snmp cookbook to your cookbook's ...

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