I just released a set of scripts that come in handing when creating clean images for virtual environment, heck you can even use it for cloud images.
What they do is:
There are scripts for: CentOS 6, Debian and OpenSuse.
They can be be found in the tools section or in github.
I finally got fed up of these messages in my log files (/var/log/messages) and decided to do something about them:
Apr 19 04:14:47 hostname snmpd[3458]: Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:42482
Apr 19 04:14:47 hostname snmpd[3458]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:42482
After reading, googling around and testing for a while I rounded it the following solution, it should work in any Linux system with net-snmp after some tweaks but out of the box on CentOS, REL, Fedora or any of its relatives:
1. Remove the -a from the snmpd start options or write this in the /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options file:
OPTIONS=”-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid”
This should take care of the “Received SNMP” packets line (2nd one).
2. Add dontLogTCPWrappersConnects true at the end of your /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file, that takes care of the other line:
Apr 19 04:13:47 dcf-is1p snmpd[3458]: Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:48911
According to the man page: This setting disables the log messages for accepted connections. Denied connections will still be logged.”
The problem is that the default settings are to log every connection / request, so what we did was leave the log work only for failed and authenticated attempts
Enjoy readable logs!
