Re: multiple snmpd daemons vs. multiple agentX subagents problem

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31/01/07, ido ivri <[email protected]> wrote:
> My goal is to run several snmp master agents (that's easy; I just bind every
> daemon to a separate interface)

Presumably each snmpd will have it's own snmpd.conf file?

> The problems start when I want to bind a different agentX subagent to each
> daemon.

Why not have each master agent listen on a different socket
(/var/agentx/master{N}) and have each AgentX subagent register with
the appropriate one.

>                      (The reason I want to do this is that each subagent should
> report a similar MIB branch subtree - and the agentX protocol does not deal
> with overlapping MIB branches).

Errr... yes it does.
That's the purpose of the "context" field in both SNMPv3 and AgentX protocols.

Now I'm not sure how easy it would be to make use of that in your partticular
situation, and having separate subagent processes might well be the most
straightforward approach.
   But a single AgentX subagent (and/or master agent) *can* in principle look
after multiple copies of the same MIB objects.

Dave

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