docs: Elaborated on permission issues with dmidecode for snmp (#7288)

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Daniel Preussker
2017-09-05 10:39:25 +00:00
committed by Neil Lathwood
parent c39f3c7468
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@@ -181,8 +181,10 @@ syscontact Your Name <your@email.address>
extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.1 distro /usr/bin/distro
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If you have 'dmidecode' installed on your host, you can add the following lines for additional hardware detection.
**NOTE**: On some systems the snmpd is running as an own user, making dmidecode unable to read out `/dev/mem` and thus showing multiple errors. Either add the snmp user to the `kmem` group or remove these lines again.
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#If you have 'dmidecode' installed on your host, you can add the following lines for additional hardware detection
extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.2 hardware '/usr/sbin/dmidecode -s system-product-name'
extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.3 manufacturer '/usr/sbin/dmidecode -s system-manufacturer'
extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.4 serial '/usr/sbin/dmidecode -s system-serial-number'