Hi Bill,
I have only one sub-agent running on the same box.
Let me test by adding the proxy configuration in snmpd.conf that you shared.
i.e:

"proxy udp:127.0.0.1:9 .1.3"

Thanks a lot for your response.

-Feroz

On Wed, 8 Sep, 2021, 11:47 pm Bill Fenner, <fen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 3:43 AM Feroz <feroz.afs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My question is, is there a way to block an agent  from responding to
>> queries ( by timeout), till time the sub-agent connects to the agent.
>>
>
> No, the master agent always lives under the impression that it knows
> everything.  You may be able to fake it out by giving it an unreachable
> proxy, something like "proxy udp:127.0.0.1:9 .1.3", and then having the
> agentx registration use a better priority so that it overrides the proxy
> config for each subtree that agentx registers.  However, this does use up
> snmp server resources trying to proxy each request to something that will
> not respond.
>
> This is an interesting problem, especially if you have multiple
> sub-agents.  What if you had one sub-agent that serves IP-MIB, and a
> separate one that serves the system MIB?  Would you want to ignore requests
> until both subagents are connected?
>
>   Bill
>
>
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