Re: Multiple Agents on a Platform Issues

On 6 March 2012 04:26, Bob ONeil <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have the need to have two agents operating in isolation on a platform,
> both extended using AgentX subagent techniques.

> To establish different connections between the agents and the subagents, I
> am using to different TCP ports, 705 and 706.
>
> However, on the Linux platform, the default is the named socket
> /var/agent/master.
>
> Is the TCP track the proper way of doing this, or under Linux, is the
> performance of the named socket preferential?

It's entirely up to you.
You can either use two different TCP ports, or specify a second
unix named socket  (e.g  /var/agentx/master2)

As long as both the master agent and the corresponding subagents
agree on a common communication path, the choice of what that
mechanism should be is entirely an internal matter - nothing other
than the master/subagents themselves need know anything about this.


> Assuming I wanted to do with the named socket procedure, what would be
> required on the platform to do this?

See the FAQ entry
   How can I run AgentX with a different socket address?
        http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ:Agent_12


> I desire to have SNMP trap information sent on different ports between
> agents, say
>
>     162, 164, etc.
>
> How would this be accomplished for the multiple agent environment?

Each (master) agent would have its own snmpd.conf file.
You would specify the appropriate destination addresses/ports
as part of the 'trapsink' (or equivalent) directive(s) in the
relevant config files.

Dave

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