SNMP Installation

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Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

• A Bleemeo Glouton agent installed and connected to your Bleemeo account. We recommend using a dedicated agent for network device monitoring. See the installation guide if you don’t have one yet.
• SNMP enabled on the devices you want to monitor.

The SNMP exporter needs to reach network devices on UDP port 161. Glouton needs to reach the SNMP exporter on TCP port 9116 (default). We recommend deploying both on the same server.

Step 1: Install the SNMP Exporter

Linux

After you installed Glouton, install the SNMP exporter:

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install snmp-exporter

The snmp-exporter package includes a pre-configured snmp.yml that works with all supported device types. No additional configuration is needed.

Windows

After you installed Glouton, download the Prometheus SNMP exporter from GitHub.

1. Download the latest snmp_exporter-*-windows-amd64.zip from the releases page.
2. Extract it to a directory of your choice (e.g., C:\Program Files\snmp_exporter\).
3. Download the Bleemeo-provided snmp.yml and place it in the same directory as the exporter:

C:\Program Files\snmp_exporter\snmp.yml

4. Run the SNMP exporter (or configure it as a Windows service):

& "C:\Program Files\snmp_exporter\snmp_exporter.exe" --config.file "C:\Program Files\snmp_exporter\snmp.yml"

Step 2: Configure SNMP Targets

Define the devices you want to monitor in the Glouton configuration. You can add as many SNMP targets as needed.

Linux

sudo tee /etc/glouton/conf.d/99-snmp.conf > /dev/null << 'EOF'
metric:
  snmp:
    targets:
    - initial_name: AP Wifi
      target: 192.168.1.10
    - initial_name: Office Printer
      target: 192.168.1.20
EOF

sudo systemctl restart glouton

Windows

Create or edit the file C:\ProgramData\glouton\conf.d\99-snmp.conf:

metric:
  snmp:
    targets:
    - initial_name: AP Wifi
      target: 192.168.1.10
    - initial_name: Office Printer
      target: 192.168.1.20

Then restart the Glouton service:

Restart-Service glouton

Replace the target values with the IP addresses of your SNMP devices and initial_name with a descriptive name for each device.

Step 3: Verify

After restarting Glouton, your SNMP devices should appear in the Bleemeo console within a few minutes.

Advanced Configuration

By default, Glouton connects to the SNMP exporter at http://localhost:9116. If you run the SNMP exporter on a different address or port, set metric.snmp.exporter_address accordingly.