Re: multiple snmpd daemons vs. multiple agentX subagents problem

Thanks a lot Dave!!

This already helps me very much, I have some further questions (with your
permission):

How can I bind a daemon to a certain socket? is this controlled by the
"master agentX" setting in the .conf?
(I mean, can I bind to master17 socket by writing "master17 agentX" in the
conf? - and if so, how do I register a daemon to a certain socket? I didn't
find any documentation about this - - I reckon it should be very easy, I
might have missed that.

Ido


On 2/1/07, Dave Shield <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>



-- 
Ido

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