RE: snmp configuration via xinetd fails

Thanks for your insight. Much appreciated.
 
-Biplab
 
> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:08:58 +0000
> Subject: Re: snmp configuration via xinetd fails
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [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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