If there common items for SUSE installation they could be written here.

SUSE versions

There are many versions of SUSE, but the following are documented

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Additional

MySQL

As in most other distro’s, SuSe installs MySQL without a root password so if you have just installed it, create it by:

mysqladmin -u root password <mypassword>

And also check that the service starts at boot…

MIBS

snmpwalk is great but download cisco mibs to, for example, /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/cisco so that one can get nice output when going thru cisco specific things

ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v2/v2.tar.gz

Example:

snmpwalk -M /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/cisco -m CISCO-CDP-MIB -v 1 -c public device cdpCacheTable

or

snmptable -M /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/cisco -m CISCO-CDP-MIB -v 1 -c public device cdpCacheTable

One can also download other mibs from other suppliers and place in their own directory

syslog-ng

Default syslogd is syslog-ng which does not listen for syslog via network. This means that syslog.pl can listen to syslog without changing the “standard” syslog config.

Also, spoof_source, doesn’t seem to have been enabled at compilation. This means one can’t have a syslog-ng resend to syslog.pl unless one recompiles from source.