SNMP

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I am a customer of an ISP, but I am also helping them with their network. My connection goes thru a Mikrotik router. Is it possible to connect to the ISP’s network to monitor it thru SNMP? I have enabled it on the few of the devices, but so far the only one I can connect to thru SNMP is my own router. I am using SNMP Tester to see if the connection can be made. So far I am being told no response from the devices in the ISP’s network. Is there any way to make this work, or do I need to be connected directly to the ISP’s network?

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As long as your router does not actively block udp port 161, and the ISP has opened for you IP to read SNMP, it should work.


From linux i do use this;

snmpget -v2c -c public 192.168.10.1 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "RouterOS RB750Gr3"

So my RouterOS respond with RB750Gr3

You should the be able to do:

snmpget -v2c -c public your-isp-ip 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0

If you look at my Splunk project here: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/tool-using-splunk-to-analyse-mikrotik-logs-3-3-graphing-everything/121810/1
you will see that I found it better that RouterOS gives me traffic counter using local script and syslog,
instead of read traffic counter using SNMP.
This way, I can add as many router to my system, with same script configured without need to tell my Splunk
to monitor this and that.

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Thanks for the info.
For everyone, I have a question that is half rhetorical half serious. Does it ever end? Having to learn new software to make things work as they are suppose to?