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diff --git a/ntpsnmpd/README b/ntpsnmpd/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5227f40 --- /dev/null +++ b/ntpsnmpd/README @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +NTP SNMP subagent for Net-SNMP + +Installation Guides: + +- install net-snmp from source (configure, make;, make install) +- edit the snmpd configuration file (/usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf): + add the lines + master agentx + agentXSocket tcp:localhost:705 + and check which read-only community is configured (should be "rocommunity public") +- start snmpd (sudo /usr/local/sbin/snmpd) and check that it is running correctly by running the command + snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost + (which should output a lot of data values for the supported built-in MIBs of net-snmp) +- build the libntpq and the libntp library +- build the ntpsnmpd application (make) and run it (./ntpsnmpd) +- now you can run + snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost enterprises.5597.99 + which should give you a list of all currently supported NTP MIB objects and their current values + +Please note that currently I use a private MIB OID (enterprises.5597 is the Meinberg top level OEM OID and 99 is my temporary working space for this project). +The final OID has to be registered with IANA and this is done by the RFC Editor when the NTPv4 MIB RFC is standardized. +I will try to do this earlier in order to be able to have a working solution at the end of this project. + +In its current state the daemon supports these objects: + +ntpEntSoftwareName +ntpEntSoftwareVersion +ntpEntSoftwareVersionVal +ntpEntSoftwareVendor +ntpEntSystemType +ntpEntTimeResolution +ntpEntTimeResolutionVal +ntpEntTimePrecision +ntpEntTimePrecisionVal +ntpEntTimeDistance + +They all use the libntpq library to access information from the ntpd instance with mode 6 packets. + +Next step is to implement the status section of the MIB (section 2). + |