What is SNMP?

Key Takeaways

a secret protocol that will let you see and monitor everything about your computer things like CPU and memory utilization hard drive space the number of flushes on your toilet everything it's called SNMP or the simple Network management protocol it typically operates on UDP Port 161 and all you have to do is pull a device and you can see all its goodies and what's crazy is many devices already have SNMP set up by default things like network storage devices and even printers but real quick I'll show you how to set this up on a Linux server this one right here first we'll update our repos and then will install SNMP with pseudo AP install snmpd and SNMP SNMP is set up now let's check our system up time we'll use the SNMP walk command to pull that oid bam there's our system up time or this one to see the number of running processes now this becomes even more powerful when it monitoring systems can pull this information remotely they can make sure your stuff is okay and alert you on any issues I've got a full video showing you how to do this in your home network and you'll be using