Re: snmp configuration via xinetd fails

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 28 January 2011 15:25, biplab datta <[email protected]> wrote:
> how does one delete a snmpd instance started dynamically

In the same way as any other network daemon - using 'kill'
(There may be mechanisms such as "service stop snmpd"
 which can be used to shut down the agent without needing
 search for the process ID first, but essentially these all boil
 down to a wrapper round "kill")

When developing an agent, I typically run it using the flags
  -f -Le   so it doesn't detach from the terminal.   Then I can
shut it down using Ctrl-C.  But that's just during development
and testing - it's not really suitable for production use!



>  What I need for snmpd is to listen on multiple ports.

The agent can do that much already.
Either by specifying the listening ports on the command
line, or by using the agentAddress config token.

See snmpd(8) and snmpd.conf(5) for details.


> My solution requires that those ports can be
> updated (added/deleted) dynmically. Is this doable?

Hmmm...   that's more of a problem.
I don't believe that the agent can handle such changes
(other than stopping and restarting it completely).

You *might* be able to support this by changing the
agentAddress line in the config file, and then telling
the agent to re-read the config.
   But I'm really not sure that would work.



Dave

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