Installing and Configuring Oracle SNMP Support

Consider Hardware and Software Requirements

Installing Oracle SNMP Support

Configuring SNMP Support

Note: The actual file locations and utilities may vary from platform to platform.

1. Configure the SNMP Master Agent. Refer to your operating system-specific documentation for instructions.

2. Configure the subagent for the Oracle7 server, listener, MultiProtocol Interchange, and Oracle Names network services using the SNMP pages in Network Manager.

To configure an SNMP subagent, you configure between three and five of the following parameters on the Database SNMP, Listener SNMP, Names Server SNMP, and MultiProtocol SNMP Pages:

• SNMP Visible

• SNMP Index

• SNMP Contact

• Username--optional (specified for an Oracle database server only)

• Password--optional (specified for an Oracle database server only)

For instructions on configuring SNMP support for Oracle services with Network Manager, see Chapter 5, "Entering Component Information" in the Oracle Network Manager Administrator's Guide.

After creating the network definition and configuring SNMP support, you generate configuration files for the network, including an SNMP.ORA file for each managed node. An SNMP.ORA file is stored in the same directory as the other SQL*Net configuration files. For example, on most UNIX platforms, the directory location is $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin. (Refer to "Oracle SNMP Support Configuration File" and "SNMP.ORA" in Appendix A for an example and information on the SNMP.ORA file.)

3. Run the DBSNMP.SQL script to create the new user, role, and grants required by Oracle SNMP Support in all databases visible over SNMP.

If you change the default username and password with the DBSNMP.SQL script, you must also specify the new username and password in the SNMP page of Network Manager.