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+====================
+SNMP Gateway Service
+====================
+
+SNMP_ is still a widely used protocol, to monitor distributed systems and devices across a variety of hardware
+and software platforms. Ceph's SNMP integration focuses on forwarding alerts from it's Prometheus Alertmanager
+cluster to a gateway daemon. The gateway daemon, transforms the alert into an SNMP Notification and sends
+it on to a designated SNMP management platform. The gateway daemon is from the snmp_notifier_ project,
+which provides SNMP V2c and V3 support (authentication and encryption).
+
+Ceph's SNMP gateway service deploys one instance of the gateway by default. You may increase this
+by providing placement information. However, bear in mind that if you enable multiple SNMP gateway daemons,
+your SNMP management platform will receive multiple notifications for the same event.
+
+.. _SNMP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol
+.. _snmp_notifier: https://github.com/maxwo/snmp_notifier
+
+Compatibility
+=============
+The table below shows the SNMP versions that are supported by the gateway implementation
+
+================ =========== ===============================================
+ SNMP Version Supported Notes
+================ =========== ===============================================
+ V1 ❌ Not supported by snmp_notifier
+ V2c ✔
+ V3 authNoPriv ✔ uses username/password authentication, without
+ encryption (NoPriv = no privacy)
+ V3 authPriv ✔ uses username/password authentication with
+ encryption to the SNMP management platform
+================ =========== ===============================================
+
+
+Deploying an SNMP Gateway
+=========================
+Both SNMP V2c and V3 provide credentials support. In the case of V2c, this is just the community string - but for V3
+environments you must provide additional authentication information. These credentials are not supported on the command
+line when deploying the service. Instead, you must create the service using a credentials file (in yaml format), or
+specify the complete service definition in a yaml file.
+
+Command format
+--------------
+
+.. prompt:: bash #
+
+ ceph orch apply snmp-gateway <snmp_version:V2c|V3> <destination> [<port:int>] [<engine_id>] [<auth_protocol: MD5|SHA>] [<privacy_protocol:DES|AES>] [<placement>] ...
+
+
+Usage Notes
+
+- you must supply the ``--snmp-version`` parameter
+- the ``--destination`` parameter must be of the format hostname:port (no default)
+- you may omit ``--port``. It defaults to 9464
+- the ``--engine-id`` is a unique identifier for the device (in hex) and required for SNMP v3 only.
+ Suggested value: 8000C53F<fsid> where the fsid is from your cluster, without the '-' symbols
+- for SNMP V3, the ``--auth-protocol`` setting defaults to **SHA**
+- for SNMP V3, with encryption you must define the ``--privacy-protocol``
+- you **must** provide a -i <filename> to pass the secrets/passwords to the orchestrator
+
+Deployment Examples
+===================
+
+SNMP V2c
+--------
+Here's an example for V2c, showing CLI and service based deployments
+
+.. prompt:: bash #
+
+ ceph orch apply snmp-gateway --port 9464 --snmp_version=V2c --destination=192.168.122.73:162 -i ./snmp_creds.yaml
+
+with a credentials file that contains;
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ ---
+ snmp_community: public
+
+Alternatively, you can create a yaml definition for the gateway and apply it from a single file
+
+.. prompt:: bash #
+
+ ceph orch apply -i snmp-gateway.yml
+
+with the file containing the following configuration
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ service_type: snmp-gateway
+ service_name: snmp-gateway
+ placement:
+ count: 1
+ spec:
+ credentials:
+ snmp_community: public
+ port: 9464
+ snmp_destination: 192.168.122.73:162
+ snmp_version: V2c
+
+
+SNMP V3 (authNoPriv)
+--------------------
+Deploying an snmp-gateway service supporting SNMP V3 with authentication only, would look like this;
+
+.. prompt:: bash #
+
+ ceph orch apply snmp-gateway --snmp-version=V3 --engine-id=800C53F000000 --destination=192.168.122.1:162 -i ./snmpv3_creds.yml
+
+with a credentials file as;
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ ---
+ snmp_v3_auth_username: myuser
+ snmp_v3_auth_password: mypassword
+
+or as a service configuration file
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ service_type: snmp-gateway
+ service_name: snmp-gateway
+ placement:
+ count: 1
+ spec:
+ credentials:
+ snmp_v3_auth_password: mypassword
+ snmp_v3_auth_username: myuser
+ engine_id: 800C53F000000
+ port: 9464
+ snmp_destination: 192.168.122.1:162
+ snmp_version: V3
+
+
+SNMP V3 (authPriv)
+------------------
+
+Defining an SNMP V3 gateway service that implements authentication and privacy (encryption), requires two additional values
+
+.. prompt:: bash #
+
+ ceph orch apply snmp-gateway --snmp-version=V3 --engine-id=800C53F000000 --destination=192.168.122.1:162 --privacy-protocol=AES -i ./snmpv3_creds.yml
+
+with a credentials file as;
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ ---
+ snmp_v3_auth_username: myuser
+ snmp_v3_auth_password: mypassword
+ snmp_v3_priv_password: mysecret
+
+
+.. note::
+
+ The credentials are stored on the host, restricted to the root user and passed to the snmp_notifier daemon as
+ an environment file (``--env-file``), to limit exposure.
+
+
+AlertManager Integration
+========================
+When an SNMP gateway service is deployed or updated, the Prometheus Alertmanager configuration is automatically updated to forward any
+alert that has an OID_ label to the SNMP gateway daemon for processing.
+
+.. _OID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_identifier
+
+Implementing the MIB
+======================
+To make sense of the SNMP Notification/Trap, you'll need to apply the MIB to your SNMP management platform. The MIB (CEPH-MIB.txt) can
+downloaded from the main Ceph repo_
+
+.. _repo: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/tree/master/monitoring/snmp