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Using PowerShell to Install SNMP and configure Community, Location and Contact on Windows 2008

One of the steps needed to onboard a system into our monitoring tools is to configure SNMP. If the customer template does not have SNMP pre-configured, or is not using GPO to do it; it quickly becomes a painfully slow speed-bump.

Last night I threw together the PowerShell script below to:

  • Install SNMP services
  • Configure SNMP Management servers
  • Configure Read-Only community strings
  • Configure Read-Write community strings
  • Configure Read-Only Trap community strings
  • Configure Read-Write Trap community strings
  • Configure System Location
  • Configure System Contact
  • Configure SNMP Name Resolution

 

$Managers = @("10.0.0.1","10.0.0.2","10.0.0.3","10.0.0.4","mgt1.domain.com")
$ReadOnlyCommunities = @("r010101","r010102")
$RWCommunities = @("w0010213")
$sysLocation = "California"
$sysContact = "Tom Smith"
$readonlytrap = "r0015781MRM5"
$rwtrap = "w0015781MRM5"
$fileserver = "computer1"
$filepath = "share1"

Import-Module ServerManager
        Write-host "Enable ServerManager"
        Import-Module ServerManager
#		#Check if SNMP-Service is already installed
 		Write-host "Checking to see if SNMP is Installed..."
 		$check = Get-WindowsFeature -Name SNMP-Service
#		
		If ($check.Installed -ne "True") {
 			#Install/Enable SNMP-Service
 			Write-host "SNMP is NOT installed..."
 			Write-Host "SNMP Service Installing..."
 			Get-WindowsFeature -name SNMP* | Add-WindowsFeature -IncludeAllSubFeature | Out-Null
 			}
 			Else {
 			Write-Host "Error: SNMP Services Already Installed"
 			}
#Configure SNMP Regigstry Keys
        Write-Host "Setting SNMP sysServices"
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\RFC1156Agent" /v sysServices /t REG_DWORD /d 79 /f | Out-Null
        Write-Host "Setting SNMP sysLocation"
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\RFC1156Agent" /v sysLocation /t REG_SZ /d $sysLocation /f | Out-Null
        Write-Host "Setting SNMP sysContact"
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\RFC1156Agent" /v sysContact /t REG_SZ /d $sysContact /f | Out-Null
        Write-Host "Setting SNMP Community Regkey"
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration" /f | Out-Null
        Write-Host "Setting read only SNMP Community Regkey"
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration\$readonlytrap" /f | Out-Null
        Write-Host "Setting read write SNMP Community Regkey"
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration\$rwtrap" /f | Out-Null
        Write-Host "Adding readonly SNMP Trap Communities"
#Loop Through Read Only SNMP Communities
        Foreach ($ReadOnlyCommunity in $ReadOnlyCommunities) {
            reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\ValidCommunities" /v $ReadOnlyCommunity /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f | Out-Null
        }
#Loop Through RW SNMP Communities
        Write-Host "Adding read wrtie SNMP Trap Communities"
        Foreach ($RWCommunity in $RWCommunities) {
            reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\ValidCommunities" /v $RWCommunity /t REG_DWORD /d 8 /f | Out-Null
        }
        Write-Host "Creating SNMP Extension Agents RegKey"
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\ExtensionAgents" /f | Out-Null
        Write-Host "Creating SNMP SNMP Service Parameters RegKey"
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters" /v NameResolutionRetries /t REG_DWORD /d 10 /f | Out-Null
        reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters" /v EnableAuthenticationTraps /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f | Out-Null
#Loop through permitted SNMP management systems
        Write-Host "Adding Permitted Managers"
        $i = 1
        Foreach ($Manager in $Managers){
            reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\PermittedManagers" /v $i /t REG_SZ /d $manager /f | Out-Null
            reg add ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration\" + $String) /v $i /t REG_SZ /d $manager /f | Out-Null
            $i++
        }

You can download the file base_snmp_single.ps1 as well.

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