Hi!
I need your help, I’m going to setup SNMP on my network with Mikrotik routers, what SNMP server do you recommend for me? I looking for best SNMP server but free(hehe), any recommendation?
Thanks in advance. Love u all.
SNMP “server” to do what?
SNMP is just a transfer protocol.
Program that uses SNMP can be:
MRTG
Cacti
Splunk
NNM (Network Node Manager)
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I try to avoid using SNMP. I do like that router sends me the correct data using script. This way if you setup 100 routers, you get data from all without adding them to a program one by one (or using some sort of discovery). This depends on what size and type of network you are working on.
@rextended, SNMP for network monitoring.
@Jotne, “SNMP is just a transfer protocol” owwww. based on my research, snmp is for network monitoring. I know ftp sftp is transfer protocol. am I right or wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol
some wrong to just call it transfer.
no problem sir @Jotne, it’s confirmation only. Thanks for your informative post, but can you explain to me why you avoided using snmp? Is it for security purposes?
If you have a closed network, within a company, you can use tools that scan your network, and if new SNMP device found, add it to the monitor system.
But if you have various devices scattered around the net with public IP and no VPN, and maybe not a static IP, how should you monitor them with SNMP.
This is why I do use Syslog instead. Collect all needed information on the router, then send it to a sentral IP. Just setup and send out new router and it will send in logs automatically.
@Jotne, you have a point. May I ask what do you monitor in your network? What do you save in your syslog? What information do you collect? I know it’s look like spoonfeed but I really don’t have any idea. Or give me some word/sentence to do research. Thank you!
Use Splunk!!!
Read his signatureeeeeeee!!! 
This time I say that first
I use Observium for my small ISP customers. Free easy to install and best thing, automatic graph creating and discover!
@rextended, thank you, i didn’t notice, I’m sorry hehe.
@ingdaka, thank you so much for sharing your tools(observium).
Try mikrotik dude. It’s for free and beside the SNMP it is able to use winbox protocol to get data from devices and much more.