This little document will show you how to configure the snmpd.conf file and enable snmp on your linux box. In order to this you are going to have to be familiar with Vi editing (see Basic Vi editing for an introduction). First off telnet into your server and log on (you’ll need su rights for the latter stages of this introduction). The first step I had to do was find the relevant snmpd.conf file. To do this I typed whereis snmd.conf. In most installations it will be in the /etc directory. So change to that directory and make a backup copy of the snmpd.conf. Then you can open it in your vi editor. The only entry I modified dealt with the systemn contact and system location. Look for the following entry: [code] ## ## the entry for system.Contact and system.Location: ## [/code] There you can uncomment and edit the entries labelled system contact: and system location:. Once done save your changes and exit the file. Next I’ll show you how to stop and re-start the snmpd daemon. Check to see if it is already running. If that is the case then type killall -9 snmpd, if it isn’t then you simply need to type: snmpd & to start it. Now yo can use for example MRTG to monitor the network traffic going through the Linux box.