Getting snmp to work on windows server 2012

Thanks for the reply Patrick, I do however realize this and I've been able to enable the snmp service, however there doesn't seem to be any configuration options for the service, i think there's tabs missing from the configuration. Which is why I can't troubleshoot it further myself. is this something you've seen before?

If you just install the SNMP service and immediately try to configure the snmp settings without a restart of the server the tab is missing. This behaviour exists since Windows 2008.

In order to get the SNMP setting tabs you have to open the service settings, start the service, close the settings and re-open the settings again. Now the tabs should be there.

Kind regards, Christoph

This did not work for me. I've even tried restarting the entire server. without luck.

For basic settings and discovering snmp it will be usefull to add a 'public' community in the 'Security'-tab with 'READ ONLY'(!)-rights.
If this setting is working you can refine community settings as well as host-restrictions for your needs.

Dieter, that's what I'm trying to get at indeed, however as mentioned I'm missing these additional tabs for the snmp service. reinstalling snmp, rebooting the hardware etc. have not solved the issue as I've read plenty of places that it should. so that's why I wondered if anyone here has ever seen this behaviour before.

Have you already tried the hints at joshancel.wordpress.com?

I though I searched pretty extensively however I did not come across that site, so good find! however it did not solve the issue.

You can although add the specific values to the registry manually or using the following powershell-script. The script is based on the work of Sander Stad and is slightly modified to work with Powershell 3.0 but only on localhost:

# PowerShell script to edit the SNMP registry
#
# Author: Sander Stad
# Version: 1.0 June 2011 tested on Powershell v2.0
# Version: 1.1 April 2013 tested on Powershell v3.0, working on localhost only!
# Usage: <script-path and name> -Manager '10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2' -Community 'public, test' 

Param(
    [string] $Manager,                  # List of managers to add, a manager is the host who has access to snmp on this machine
    [string] $Community                 # List of communties to add
)

$Server='localhost'

$serviceCheck = Get-WmiObject -computer $Server Win32_Service -Filter "Name='SNMP'" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

# Check if the SNMP Service is installed
if($serviceCheck.Name -eq 'SNMP')
{
# Create the registry object
    $reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $Server)
    $regKeyMan = $reg.OpenSubKey('SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\PermittedManagers', $true)
    $regKeyCom = $reg.OpenSubKey('SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\ValidCommunities', $true)

    # Get the amount of managers and communities already present
    $managerCount = $regKeyMan.ValueCount
    $communityCount = $regKeyCom.ValueCount
    $managerArray = @()
    $communityArray = @()

    # Get all the present values and save them in the array
    for($i = 1; $i -le $managerCount; $i++)
    {
        $managerArray += $regKeyMan.GetValue($i)
    }
    for($i = 0; $i -le $communityCount; $i++)
    {
        $communityArray += $regKeyCom.GetValue($i)
    }

    # Increase counters
    $managerCount++
    
    write-host $communityArray

    #Check if the localhost can query the SNMP service.
    if(($managerArray -contains 'localhost') -eq $false)
    {
         Write-Host -foregroundcolor Blue " - Adding manager key: localhost"
         $regKeyMan.SetValue($managerCount, 'localhost')
         $managerCount++
    }

    # Run through each of the managers and check the registry if the entry
    # already exists.
    $Manager.split(',') | foreach {
         $m=$_.Trim()
         if(($managerArray -contains $m) -eq $false)
         {
             Write-Host -foregroundcolor Blue " - Adding manager key: $m"
             # Add the manager if it doesn't exist
             $regKeyMan.SetValue($managerCount, $m, [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind]::String)
             #Increase the manager counter
             $managerCount++
         }
     }

     # Run through each of the communities and check the registry if the entry
     # already exists.
     $Community.split(',') | foreach {
         $c=$_.Trim()
         if(($communityArray -contains $c) -eq $false)
         {
         Write-Host -foregroundcolor Blue " - Adding community key: $c"
         # Add the community if it doesn't exist
         $regKeyCom.SetValue($c, 4, [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind]::DWord)
         # Increase the community counter
         }
     }
}
else
{
    write-host -foregroundcolor Red "SNMP Service not present!"
}

Write-host -foregroundcolor Green “Completed”

Hey, I found a solution. If I run compmgmt.msc as a domain admin and then connect to the server with said problem using computer management, the additional tabs show up when looking at properties for services.