Community "community_string"
Collect "std_traffic"
Interval 120
+ Timeout 10
+ Retries 1
</Host>
<Host "some.server.mydomain.org">
Address "192.168.0.42"
Community "more_communities"
Collect "powerplus_voltge_input"
Interval 300
+ Timeout 5
+ Retries 5
</Host>
</Plugin>
=head1 CONFIGURATION
Since the aim of the C<snmp plugin> is to provide a generic interface to SNMP,
-it's configuration is not trivial and may take some time.
+its configuration is not trivial and may take some time.
Since the C<Net-SNMP> library is used you can use all the environment variables
that are interpreted by that package. See L<snmpcmd(1)> for more details.
B<Step> of generated RRD files depends on this setting it's wise to select a
reasonable value once and never change it.
+=item B<Timeout> I<Seconds>
+
+How long to wait for a response. The C<Net-SNMP> library default is 1 second.
+
+=item B<Retries> I<Integer>
+
+The number of times that a query should be retried after the Timeout expires.
+The C<Net-SNMP> library default is 5.
+
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO