On 12 April 2010 20:44, Kathy McLeod <kmcl...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 1) If the proxy is not being configured from the command line,

Proxy support is typically configured via the config file, rather than
the command line.

> is there an API for setting it up?

No.
You'd need to update the config file, and signal the agent to
re-read this.


> 2) What happens if the proxy agent fails - is there some kind of
> auto-failover,

No

>          or does the Admin have to detect that and reconfigure
> another agent to act as the proxy?

Yes

> 3) Is there any additional documentation besides the info on the wiki a the
> conf and examples doc?

'man snmpd.conf(5)'
would be the main documentation for the proxy directive.

Dave

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