Re: How to run my legacy snmp "agent" as sub-agent of net-snmp agent

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/6/23 Krishna Mohan <[email protected]>:
> On my host I’m using legacy snmp (internally developed by our team) which
> lacks IPv6 functionality.  In order to circumvent this, I’d like to use
> net-snmp agent which supports IPv6 and adding new MIBs at ease.  Could you
> please let me know how to run my legacy snmp as sub-agent of net-snmp agent?

See the 'snmpd.conf' man page - in particular the "proxy" directive.



> Would running legacy snmp as sub-agent of net-snmp agent require any code
> changes in my code?

As long as you can configure the legacy agent to listen on a different port,
then no code changes should be needed.


> Or could it be done with configuring net-snmp agent?  If
> so, please suggest me the approach.

Use "proxy" to pass selected requests on to the legacy agent.

Dave

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