https://www.netdata.cloud/tags/net-snmp-host/Recent content in Net-SNMP Host on NetdataHugoen-usSat, 22 Aug 2026 05:09:03 +0300https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/remote-unix-monitoring-with-net-snmp/Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/remote-unix-monitoring-with-net-snmp/<p><img src="../2023-04-12-remote-unix-monitoring-with-net-snmp/img/img.jpg" alt="img"></p> <p>Need to monitor a UNIX-like system, but can’t install Netdata on it? With our SNMP collector and Net-SNMP, you can get basic system information with just a bit of relatively quick and easy configuration.</p> <!-- truncate --> <h2 id="what-is-snmp">What is SNMP?</h2> <p>The Simple Network Management Protocol, commonly known as SNMP, is a relatively lightweight protocol designed for monitoring and configuration management for network appliances like switches, routers or gateways. However, it can also be used for those purposes on almost any UNIX-like system thanks to the <a href="http://www.net-snmp.org/">Net-SNMP project</a>.</p>