Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System
BASP SNMP Agent for Linux
Installing the TAR Archive
This SNMP agent is designed to support the configuration and statistics information pertaining to the BASP driver. The BASP SNMP agent is available in two packaging formats: TAR archive and RPM. Both packages include the same script and MIB files.
To uncompress and expand the tar archive, run:
% tar xvfz
To install BASP SNMP agent for Linux, perform the following procedure.
1.Copy the getBaspInfo and genBaspTraps script files into /usr/bin directory.
2.Copy the
3.Locate the snmpd.conf file.
It is usually located in one of the following directories:
/etc/snmp
/usr/lib/snmp $HOME/.snmp
4.Add the following lines to the snmpd.conf.
pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.4413.1.2.1 /usr/bin/getBaspInfo pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.4413.1.2.2.1 /usr/bin/getBaspInfo pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.4413.1.2.2.2 /usr/bin/getBaspInfo pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.4413.1.2.2.3 /usr/bin/getBaspInfo
5.Stop the snmpd daemon and restart it again.
%/etc/init.d/snmpd stop
%/etc/init.d/snmpd start
6.Run the genBaspTraps script to allow monitoring of the BASP trap events:
%genBaspTraps
This script can be terminated by hitting
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