Configuring SNMP Agent in Lotus Domino Server

By configuring SNMP agent in lotus domino server, you can gather critical metrics about your server performance. Furthermore, the data collected by the SNMP agent can be integrated with a network monitoring solution such as OpManager, to provide centralized monitoring of all the devices in your network, which eases your monitoring efforts.

The Domino SNMP Agent is configured as a Windows Service and is set up to run automatically. This means that once the Domino SNMP Agent is configured, it is virtually always running, even when Domino is not. If you later upgrade Domino you should stop the LNSNMP and Windows SNMP Services before beginning the upgrade process.

  1. Use the Server Manager to add the SNMP Service to your windows installation. This installation process generally does not require a reboot.

    2. SNMP agent configuration in Lotus Domino Server on OpManager: To add roles and features

    SNMP agent configuration in Lotus Domino Server on OpManager: Select a server from the server pool

    SNMP agent configuration in Lotus Domino Server on OpManager: Remote server administration tool

    SNMP agent configuration in Lotus Domino Server on OpManager: Role based or feature based selection

  2. Once the installation process is complete and the service has been installed successfully, right-click the SNMP Service in the services console, and select Properties.

    3. SNMP agent configuration in Lotus Domino Server on OpManager: To select properties of the SNMP service post installation

  3. In Properties, under Security tab, the “Send Authentication trap” has to be disabled. Now, please add a Community, e.g. “public” and assign "Read Only"rights for monitoring purposes.
  4. Now, allow any host/ hosts of your preference, to access the SNMP data.

  5. Now, let us install the Domino SNMP Agent service. This service will feed data to the Windows SNMP agent:
  6. Please open Command Prompt with Administrative privileges, and write the following code:

    CD C:\Program Files\IBM\Domino
    LNSNMP -Sc
    net start lnsnmp

    SNMP agent configuration in Lotus Domino Server on OpManager: Administrator command prompt codes

TIP!

If you get the following error when trying to install the Domino SNMP Agent service (LNSNMP -Sc), make sure you have installed the Windows SNMP Service correctly.

Error opening registry key "SNMP"
Error Detail: RegOpenKeyEx error code 2 (The system cannot find the file specified.)
Full key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\ExtensionAgents
Service deletion failed.

  1. Lastly, you need to ensure that Domino, sends Stats to the SNMP Agent. To do this, launch the Domino Console and send the following commands:

    load quryset
    load intrcpt
    load collect

    SNMP agent configuration in Lotus Domino Server on OpManager: Commands for verification on Domino console

  2. This process is to be repeated everytime the Domino server is restarted. Therefore, add it to the Domino Server's "notes.ini" file.
    Eg:ServerTasks=Replica,Router,Update,AMgr,Adminp,Sched,POP3,quryset,intrcpt,collect
  3. The Domino.mib will be located in the “C:\Program Files\IBM\Domino” folder. You can use this with OpManager .

The SNMP agent has now been configured successfully.

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