SNMP Private MIB installation and configuration using Zabbix

[sujiths80]

Hello,

I am monitoring some network elements which supports private MIBS.. I want to know how can I install the MIBS on the ZABBIX and monitor the Network Element.

I am new to Zabbix..Kindly help

[tim.mooney]

Zabbix uses your OS SNMP implementation, which is probably Net SNMP, so to make MIB files available to Zabbix, you follow the instructions for your OS for making them available to the SNMP libraries and commands.

You probably want to look at your OS documentation for snmp_config(5) and snmp.conf(5).

At least on RHEL 7.x, to activate additional MIB files, I had to place the MIB file in /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ . I followed the examples for the existing MIB files, so that the file name exactly matched the name from the "DEFINTIONS" line inside the MIB file, but with .txt appended to the file name. Ex: for a MIB file with

PowerNet-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

in the file, the file name I used is

PowerNet-MIB.txt

.

After doing that, I modified /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf and added a line like this:

mibs +PowerNet-MIB

Your OS may use different conventions, but hopefully those two documents will help you decide where to place the file and how to make it known to the SNMP libraries.