Re: Clarification on Launching snmpd with arguments.

Hi Dave,

The invocation for launching snmpd as mentioned below worked for me. I
seperated the list of ports by white space.
snmpd -c snmpd.conf -x tcp:localhost:705   udp:161 udp6:161

Thanks,
Harish


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Dave Shield <[email protected]>wrote:

> 2009/7/13 Harish B <[email protected]>:
> > I had Netsnmp 5.3.x version earlier, and the way I was launching snmpd
> was:
> > snmpd -c snmpd.conf udp:161,udp6:161 -x localhost:161
>
> Two comments on that:
>
>  -  firstly, the "-x" option should come *before* the list of SNMP ports
>  -  secondly, port 161 is the standard port for SNMP requests,
>          *not* for AgentX traffic.
>
> A better invocation would be
>
>    snmpd -c snmpd.conf -x tcp:localhost:705   udp:161,udp6:161
>
> (and adjust your subagents to connect to port 705 - the standard AgentX
> port)
>
>
> > I need a clarification in the way snmpd is launched in 5.4.2.1
>
> Try the invocation above.
>
>
>
> > Lastly(not of great importance), do we have a definite way of specifying
> > more than one listening address to snmpd?
>
> List them on the command line, *after* all other options.
>
>
> >                         How the list is separated( either
> > with commas or with spaces)
>
> Either should work, in exactly the same way.
> If you run the agent with the  flag "-Dsnmpd/main",  you
> should see the list of ports that the agent will be listening on.
> It's actually held as a comma-separated list, but if you list
> them using spaces, the agent will build the same list anyway.
>
> Dave
>

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