Re: snmptrapd receiving multiple informs -- not acknowledging?

On 01/04/2012 16:59, Dave Shield wrote:
> On 1 April 2012 14:24, Chris Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Ok, investigating further it seems that snmptrapd is taking too long to
>> respond to the inform.  So now, my question is how can I change the
>> inform timeout and number of retries for snmpd?  I can't see anything in
>> the command-line options or snmpd.conf.
> 
>    $ man snmpd.conf
>       :
>         trapsess [SNMPCMD_ARGS] HOST
>               provides  a  more  generic  mechanism  for  defining
> notification destinations
>               SNMPCMD_ARGS should be the command-line options required for an
>               equivalent  snmptrap  (or snmpinform)  command to send the desired
>               notification.  The option -Ci can be used (with -v2c or
> -v3) to generate
>               an INFORM notification rather  than  an  unacknowledged TRAP.

Thanks for that.  Just to clarify, does this mean the agent will execute
snmpinform as a separate process?  How does that effect performance if
there are a lot of informs to send?

Chris
-- 
Chris Smith <[email protected]>

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