Note: On Windows Server 2012, you might encounter missing Security, Agent, and Traps tabs in SNMP service properties. Save the properties and restart the server.On the Agent tab, fill out all edit fields and enable all check boxes to make all SNMP values available.You must at least choose the IP address of the machine running PRTG! On the Security tab in the lower half, you can choose which IP addresses are allowed to access the SNMP service.for accepted community names, leave Community Rights as Read-Only and pick a secure Community Name. On the Security tab, you can leave the default community name "public" or choose your own (the latter is more secure).On the General tab, select Automatic for Startup Type.Double-click SNMP Service to open its Properties.After the SNMP installation is completed, open services.msc as administrator.
On Windows Server 2012, 2016, and 2019, click Next after completing step 2 until you reach Features where you can select and install SNMP Service.On Windows Server 2008, you find the SNMP service under Features | Add Features in the Server Manager that opened after completing step 2.
Check Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and install it.Click Turn Windows features on or off in section Programs.Open the Control Panel on your Windows machine.
Enabling SNMP on Windows 8 and 10 as well as Windows Server 12, 16, and 19 This process is very similar on all Windows systems. To install and configure SNMP on other Windows systems, follow the steps below. There are some applications (for example, IIS and MS SQL Server) that will not install SNMP support if the service is not installed (and in some cases, running)!īy default, the SNMP service is already installed on Windows systems previous to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The best moment to install the SNMP service is immediately after or as part of the installation of the operating system because there are some applications that check for the availability of the SNMP service to install their own SNMP files. This article applies to PRTG Network Monitor 19 or later Installing and Configuring the SNMP Service on Windows