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pmdasnmp(1)

pmdasnmp1

Gateway from snmp to pcp (pmda)

Overview

pmdasnmp is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which provides a generic gateway from PCP queries from a PCP client to SNMP queries to one or more SNMP agents.

Installation

If you want access to the SNMP gateway performance metrics, do the following as root:

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp
        # ./Install

If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp
        # ./Remove

pmdasnmp is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is installed or removed.

Configuration

TODO: define config file format here - map/set/host/... etc

Files

$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp/snmp.conf

optional configuration file for pmdasnmp

$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp/Install

installation script for the pmdasnmp agent

$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp/Remove

undo installation script for the pmdasnmp agent

$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/snmp.log

default log file for error and warn() messages from pmdasnmp

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)

From pcp-pmda-snmp 7.2.2-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.