Re: How do I detect kill -9 snmpd?

"Richard Horton" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/9/10 Vahid K <[email protected]>:
> Thanks for the response Mike.  Just for clarification...
> Am I to understand that there is no way to detect snmpd is dead from inside
> the snmp subaganet?  In that case I could call send_v2trap() and wouldn't
> know snmpd is gone. correct?
>

Assuming the main agent has the sysname oid enabled you could on a
periodic basic do a get for that OID... as I'm assuming the sub-agent
is running on the same hardware as the master this wouldn't be a
significant overhead for the network or the agents.


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