Apologies if this is the wrong place to post, please direct me to the correct place.
I'm behind the times when it comes to SNMP and NMS systems, but I'm trying to learn to setup and use SNMP with a proper configuration (secured-ish, v2c+), however my searches for general guidelines seem to come up lacking. Also and maybe I haven't read enough but it seems SNMP configurations are arbitrary to say the least. I get that one would want to change the community names forgoing public/private default names for security purposes, but when/why would you want to use read only vs read/write settings for your community traps? Is this in relation to using different NMS/MIB systems?
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[–] jcdouglas [S] ago
As a pentest fan, I agree, however I hate being ignorant about something just because of it's security implications. What would you suggest as an alternative for monitoring of network/server infrastructure?
[–] SirusCloud ago
Syslogs go alright. If you setup graylog it can structure all the input for you in pretty graphs and stuff.