Re: Cannot start snmpd agent

Hi
switch to root user and then try to start from there.
I think this will help.
You can start simply by giving #snmpd -c  /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
This will start your agent in 161 port by default.



On 12/3/08, Mitul Sen (misen) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  It looks like the snmp agent is not starting because of the following
> error which I see in the debug logs
>
>  .........
>
> verbose:udpEndpointTable:udpEndpointTable_container_init: called
>
> verbose:socket:buffer: Original server send buffer is 111616
>
> verbose:socket:buffer: New server send buffer size is smaller than
> original!
>
> verbose:socket:buffer: Original server receive buffer is 111616
>
> verbose:socket:buffer: New server receive buffer size is smaller than
> original!
>
> *Error opening specified endpoint ""*
>
> *Server Exiting with code 1*
>
> Again, any help will be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mitul
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Mitul Sen (misen)
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 02, 2008 6:48 PM
> *To:* '[email protected]'
> *Subject:* Cannot start snmpd agent
>
>
>
> I am new to snmp and net-snmp and am trying to go through tutorials to set
> up an snmp agent
>
> I configured the agent but am not able to start snmpd. When I run the
> following command, it does not seem to do anything and continues to run
> forever unless I explicitly kill the snmpd process
>
> misen@misen-desktop:~/work/snmp/net-snmp-5.4.2.1$ sudo snmpd -Le -C -c
> /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf :10161 misen@misen-desktop:~/work/snmp/net-snmp-5.4.2.1$
> NET-SNMP version 5.4.2.1
>
> misen@misen-desktop:~/work/snmp/net-snmp-5.4.2.1$ ps -eaf|grep snmp
>
> root 8855 1 0 18:29 ? 00:00:00 snmpd -Le -C -c
> /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf :10161
>
> misen 8858 5926 0 18:31 pts/2 00:00:00 grep snmp
>
> If I try to start the agent using the following command, the snmp agent
> does not start.
>
> misen@misen-desktop:~/work/snmp/net-snmp-5.4.2.1$ /usr/local/sbin/snmpd
>
> misen@misen-desktop:~/work/snmp/net-snmp-5.4.2.1$ ps -eaf|grep snmp
>
> misen 8863 5926 0 18:33 pts/2 00:00:00 grep snmp
>
> What am I doing wrong? How can I figure out whats going on?
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.
>
>
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