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I was following steps to update our snmp.conf file when I ended up with only 1 line in it that contains:

mibs +ALL

Prior to issuing the command to add this line, I did not create a copy of my snmp.conf file. I fear I've overwritten some important info. I have NOT restarted the httpd service yet.

1) Will this single entry be sufficient to allow our snmp queries to continue to work?
2) If I have to restore my snmp.conf file, how can I do this? I have a recent weekly backup in /store/backups and a recent snapshot.
3) I'm not sure what was in our snmp.conf file prior to be overwritten, thus the restore looks most viable.

Having mibs +ALL basically loads up all of the mibs that the system has access to. As a result, this may throw a bunch of warnings. But it should be just fine. Alternately, you can specify which mib file(s) you would like to load. Like so.
If you would rather just restore the snmp.conf file, you can download a backup, and extract the snmp.conf file. I am attaching a screenshot for reference. Just extract the snmp.conf file from the etc-snmp.tar.gz file within the Nagios backup, and either get it copied over to the server, or copy/pate the contents. Whatever you're most comfortable with.

Awesome - thanks for the reply!

Feel free to lock this thread with my thanks.

I was able to restore the latest backup snmp.conf file and it has the very same line as my updated one did.

I made this way too difficult. But at least I can restore single files now.

Thanks again!