Friday, December 10, 2010

How to Enable SNMP Monitoring on Mikrotik

Open New Winbox Terminal or SSH shell

Enable SNMP
[user@Mikrotik] > /snmp
[user@Mikrotik] /snmp > set enabled=yes contact=[your_name] location=[your_location]

Next, set disable community public read access
[user@Mikrotik] /snmp> community
[user@Mikrotik] /snmp community> print
# NAME ADDRESS SECURITY READ-ACCESS
0 public 0.0.0.0/0 none yes
[user@Mikrotik] /snmp community> set public read-access=no

Then add your community name and specify access ip address
[user@Mikrotik] /snmp community> add name=network address=192.168.1.1/24
[user@Mikrotik] /snmp community> print
# NAME ADDRESS SECURITY READ-ACCESS
0 public 0.0.0.0/0 none no
1 network 10.1.1.0/24 none no
[user@Mikrotik] /snmp community> set network read-access=yes

That's it! Then prepare your SNMP monitoring software!

Good Luck!

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