Re: configuring net-snmp from source

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/03/07, zaman L <[email protected]> wrote:
>      ./snmpd  -f -Lo -x udp:127.0.0.1:161 /tmp/snmp.skt

No - that's wrong.
The -x option is used to specify an *AgentX* socket.
So the agent is now listening for AgentX connections
on the standard SNMP port, and listening for SNMP
connections on the named socket /tmp/snmp.skt

This won't work.


> But there is no SNMP agent listening after I checked it with netstat -ultnp
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53      0.0.0.0:*    LISTEN      16670/named
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:953    0.0.0.0:*    LISTEN      16670/named
> tcp        0      0 ::1:53          :::*       LISTEN      16670/named
> tcp        0      0 ::1:953        :::*       LISTEN      16670/named
> udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:161      0.0.0.0:*       14434/snmpd
>
> As you can see from the last line , snmpd is not in listening mode.

That's because it's a UDP-based server, not TCP.

Though you've started it in a very strange manner (see above)


> Please somebody help me in starting the agent so that it
> responds to the snmp commands.

Try the following:

    - Shut down the agent
    - Run "netstat -ultmp"
           Is there *anything* listed with port "161" ?

If so, then stop.

    -  Run   "snmpd -f -Lo -c /path/to/your/snmpd.conf"

What does that display?

Dave

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