Enabling SNMP on a Thompson 585v7 router

Which happens to be what my ISP calls a *bebox

Process is quite simple (dispite what the CLI manual might make you think)

First, telnet to the router

naxxtor@marvin:~$ telnet your.routers.IP.address
Trying ...
Connected to  your.routers.IP.address.
Escape character is '^]'.
Username : Administrator
Password : 
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                             ______  Thomson TG585 v7
                         ___/_____/\ 
                        /         /\  7.4.20.3
                  _____/__       /  \ 
                _/       /\_____/___ \  Copyright (c) 1999-2008, THOMSON
               //       /  \       /\ \
       _______//_______/    \     / _\/______ 
      /      / \       \    /    / /        /\
   __/      /   \       \  /    / /        / _\__ 
  / /      /     \_______\/    / /        / /   /\
 /_/______/___________________/ /________/ /___/  \ 
 \ \      \    ___________    \ \        \ \   \  /
  \_\      \  /          /\    \ \        \ \___\/
     \      \/          /  \    \ \        \  /
      \_____/          /    \    \ \________\/
           /__________/      \    \  /
           \   _____  \      /_____\/
            \ /    /\  \    /___\/
             /____/  \  \  /
             \    \  /___\/
              \____\/

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_{Administrator}=>

Default username is Administrator, blank password

Then paste the following commands into it, replacing $email with your email address, $name with the name of the router and $password with the desired community name.

:snmp config sysContact="$email" sysName="$router"
:snmp community modify securityname=ROCommunity communityname=$password
:service system modify name=SNMP_AGENT state=enabled
:saveall

Then, SNMP should be enabled. Try doing

snmpwalk -v 1 -c $password your.routers.IP.address

And you should get a bunch of OIDs

Add some MRTG and you can graph your network traffic :-)

If you use cfgmaker, you'll notice a bunch of really useless "interfaces" come up. You'll need to identify which ones you really care about and comment out the rest. ethport0-3 are the ethernet ports on the back of the router (useful for graphing your housmates bandwidth usage ;-) ), atmbr0 is only used when the device is in bridge mode. atm0-2 are only used when the device is in NAT mode

Have fun!


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