Installing and configuring net-analyzer/net-snmp-3.5.7_rc1 to monitor Linux operating systems with AT-SNMPc requires installing the snmp service on Linux. For gentoo, the snmp service is provided by the net-analyzer/net-snmp software package. The latest version of the current stable version is 3.5.7 _ rc1. Installing USE flag snmp can enable snmp support for some software packages. Enabling snmp USE will automatically install net-analyzer/net-snmp. -- Gentoo wiki. The operation is as follows [plain] sudo vim/etc/make. conf USE = "... snmp... "sudo emerge-uDN world, but I have not installed net-snmp here. It may be that there are too few software in my gentoo world to trigger the corresponding dependency conditions. So manually install [plain] sudo emerge net-snmp. You can ignore/etc/conf. d/snmpd and/etc/conf. d/snmptrapd. The configuration file is/etc/snmp. conf, which must be created by yourself, but there is a sample that can be used directly. [Plain] cd/etc/snmp sudo cp snmp. conf. sample snmp. conf: [plain] agentAddress udp: 161 rocommunity public default-V systemonly start [plain] sudo/etc/init. d/snmpd start sudo/etc/init. d/snmptrapd start want these daemon to start automatically, add them to the default running level [plain] sudo rc-update add snmpd default sudo rc-update add snmptrapd default monitoring open AT-SNMPc, insert-> ing object-> device, general tags: Enter gentoo's server name, address: Enter gentoo's IP address, read tags: Read access mode: SNMP V1, Read Co Mmunity: public. Effect.