Article 5M6ZT Cannot successfully configure SNMP in Ubuntu20

Cannot successfully configure SNMP in Ubuntu20

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BigD63
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Hello all,
I am here to see what im missing, and I am a Linux newb.

If this matters everything here is in AWS.

I am setting up, trying to, snmp v2c (i started by pulling down a new installation of snmp with apt-get install snmpd) for use with Observium. The Observium server is alive and well, and a few Windows servers are already communicating with it fine.
I also did no add this to Ubuntu specifically as I will also have Amazon Linux, Centos, and Debian to do this with as well once im done here.

OK, if it matters im using nano for editting.
I have read several tutorials and all are similar and I have tried most combo's I can think of from the info i have found.

agentAddress udp:161,udp6:[::1]:161

Gave errors about not communicating with 127.0.0.1

agentAddress udp:0.0.0.0 with or without /24 at the end it reflected the IP address and when I checked status after restarting the service got this message:
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) then gives date and time stamp.

Per other instructions I have also read i tried at the end of the agentAddress line after the ip (space)udp:161 and this produced the same error.

Also i do have the rocommunity (communityname) there as well and the rocommuinity6 listing, I have tried with one\the other\both

I can ping the observium server from here so i know it can see it, and windows servers are working just fine connecting, but a majority of the companies servers are linux, so this needs to work.

The error feels very vague to me, maybe it isnt to a non-newb :)

I am 100% confident this is a me issue, not a server issue, so if someone could point me in the right direction i can get this squared away.

Thanks all!latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=tMGwQOsuvOs:4xGS3SzRMwo:F7zBnMy latest?i=tMGwQOsuvOs:4xGS3SzRMwo:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=tMGwQOsuvOs:4xGS3SzRMwo:gIN9vFwtMGwQOsuvOs
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