SNMP on Win10

Jan 12, 2021 1 min read Windows

I run an instance of Ubiquiti’s UISP (formerly UNMS) and it seems to collect information about discovered devices via SNMP. So, logically I want my Win10 workstations to provide some basic details to have the cool Professional Infrastructure look that one expects from one’s home network.

Quick googling tells me this should be simple: https://theitbros.com/snmp-service-on-windows-10/

I fire up the admin powershell console and execute

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name "SNMP.Client~~~~0.0.1.0"

About configuration, I found this page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/configure-snmp-service and eventually this page: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4032.how-to-install-snmp-remotely.aspx. Using these I found the correct registry branch at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP and was able to have the machine reply to queries from my UISP server.

And there was much rejoicing!