[Help] How to Monitor Proxmox VE Server Using PRTG?

[alanparsons]

Dear all members and admin of Proxmox Support Forum,
I am using Proxmox 2.2 to built an experimental web server and FTP server with KVM. The operating system I used for that purpose was CentOS 6.2 Minimal and Windows Server 2008 SP2, all virtual machine is working fine under KVM, except for Windows Server 2008 poor networking performance compared to CentOS, even after I installed the VirtIO driver, but that's not the case I wanna ask here.

Right now I want to do the monitoring for Proxmox VE server itself using PRTG from my Windows 7 laptop, the system parameters I want to monitor is CPU Usage (in '%' not in load average), memory usage, and network performance. I already tried to configure the SNMPD within Proxmox VE shell access by following some advices and tutorials from the following links:
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/8423-Setup-SNMP-monitoring
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/6921-How-to-install-SNMP-on-Proxmox-Hardware-Node-itself
http://hypernexus.net/squishydale/?m=201012
http://www.ghachey.info/weblog/2012/05/24/debian-squeeze-snmp-basic-setup/
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/snmp.htm

But I still cannot get the SNMPD to be running succesfully. Can somebody here provide more detailed links or point me to the tutorials about how to correctly configuring SNMPD so PRTG could monitoring my Proxmox VE server?

I am really sorry if my questions is dumb, but I decided to create this threads after several days of googling about it and still no luck to get SNMPD up and running, the Proxmox VE Wiki itself is no helping.

Thanks in advance.

 

[mel128]

Hello,

I do this on each Linux server, either physical or virtual.

# apt-get install snmpd

# vim /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

rocommunity public PRTG_IP_ADDRESS
agentaddress LOCAL_IP_ADDRESS:161

# /etc/init.d/snmpd restart.

I do not use PRTG but Zenoss but I believe that should work with PRTG.

Michel

 

[alanparsons]

Hello Michel,
thank you very much for your reply. I am gonna try your method on my Proxmox VE server and will report the results here.

 

[alanparsons]

Dear Michel,
I tried your solutions on my Proxmox VE server and it works like a charm!

Now I can monitor almost every system parameters through PRTG by choosing Create New Sensors > SNMP Library > Basic Linux Library. But after this I also consider to setup and try Zenoss, because PRTG free edition had limitation to only 10 sensors.

I hope this thread could help some others n00bs like me who have a difficult time to configuring SNMPD.

Once again, thank you Michel!

 

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