sysContact

[JH]

I'm setting up a snmpd.conf file for the first time and am a little
confused about what to use for the syscontact and syslocation settings. Is
syscontact a user account on the polling server? And the same question for
syslocation. Or are these local to the client that will be polled and
monitored? Thanks.

[Ulrich Windl]

Post by JH
I'm setting up a snmpd.conf file for the first time and am a little
confused about what to use for the syscontact and syslocation settings. Is
syscontact a user account on the polling server? And the same question for
syslocation. Or are these local to the client that will be polled and
monitored? Thanks.

Both are informational: If someone(?) detects an issue with this system, those items are intended to give a hint whom to call, and where to find the system.

BTW: Try:
snmptranslate -Td -OS .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.system.sysContact
snmptranslate -Td -OS .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.system.sysLocation

Regards,
Ulrich