Hee-hee. Thanks Dave, will keep that in mind. Dave, as I re-read the README.solaris doc I realized that maybe I misread and that in fact the net-snmpd 'snmpd' daemon still has to run along side of the Solaris native 'snmpdx' for a net-snmp subagent to run? In other words, in part 7 of README.solaris, when it says:
7. Using Sun's SNMP daemon and net-snmp together Net-SNMP may be used as a subagent in conjunction with Sun's snmpdx daemon. To do this, you will need to modify several files, all located in /etc/snmp/conf. First, do the following: ................................. Our problem is that the customer, who uses Solaris, may not, or probably won't be thrilled with us having to ship the 'snmpd' daemon with the subagent (and the net-snmp libs of course) to run our subagent on their boxes. I don't expect you guys to perform miracles, Perhaps if snmpdx supported agentX, would a net-snmp subagent be able to talk directly to that guy instead of having to tunnel through the net-snmp snmpd daemon? Or have I reached the zenith here? 00 -- Thanks again for your response(s). Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Shield Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 5:01 AM To: Smith, Randy Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Can AIX Native SNMPD Daemon Be Used In Conjuntion With a NET-SNMP Built Subagents? On 31/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, we were wondering if the same can be done on AIX platform - > that is, can the native snmpd daemon on AIX (whatever it is called) also > be used in conjunction with net-snmp subagents? You probably need to ask the AIX people about this - it isn't a platform that we have much experience of here. A quick poke around seems to indicate that the standard AIX server supports SMUX-based subagents. Unfortunately, the Net-SNMP agent can't run as a SMUX-subagent (just as a SMUX master, and even that isn't particularly solid). The two things to ask the AIX people about are either AgentX support (which is essentially the replacement for SMUX), or "SNMP proxying" (sometimes called "SNMP forwarding"). If it supports either of these, then you should be able to link up a Net-SNMP subagent with the AIX master. Alternatively, you could tackle this the other way, and run the AIX server as a "proxied subagent" of the Net-SNMP agent. You'd need to tweak the AIX snmpd config to listen on a different port (say 6161), and then use a (Net-SNMP) snmpd.conf line of the form: proxy localhost:6161 .1.3.6.1.4.1.2 to pass any requests for this subtree off to the AIX server. > I read through the README.aix doc and didn't see anything > regarding that. Perhaps that hasn't been tested? No - I think you're the first. Please consider writing up your experiences, so we can include them in future versions of README.aix. Fame and fortune await you.... (well, a modicum of fame at least - fortune may have to wait) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
