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Chapter 9, Using SNMP to Monitor Servers 209
Reconfiguring the SNMP Native Agent
Restarting the Native SNMP Daemon
After starting the proxy SNMP agent, you need to restart the native SNMP
daemon at the port you specified in the
CONFIG
file. To restart the native
SNMP daemon, at the command prompt, enter
# snmpd -P port_number
where port_number is the port number specified in the
CONFIG
file. For
example, on the Solaris platform, using the port in the previously mentioned
example
CONFIG
file, you’d enter:
# snmpd -P 1161
Reconfiguring the SNMP Native Agent
If your SNMP daemon is running on AIX, it supports SMUX. For this reason,
you don’t need to install a master agent. However, you do need to change the
AIX SNMP daemon configuration.
AIX uses several configuration files to screen its communications. One of them,
snmpd.conf
, needs to be changed so that the SNMP daemon accepts the
incoming messages from the SMUX subagent. For more information, see the
online manual page for
snmpd.conf
. You need to add a line to define each
subagent.
For example, you might add this line to the
snmpd.conf
:
smux 1.3.6.1.4.1.1.1450.1 ““ IP_address net_mask
IP_address is the IP address of the host the subagent is running on, and
net_mask is the network mask of that host.
Note
Do not use the loopback address 127.0.0.1; use the real IP address instead.
Installing the SNMP Master Agent
You cannot use the Server Manager to install and start the master SNMP agent
unless the server is running as
root
.