I really appreciate if someone could provide some input on their development model for configuring or updating snmpd.conf from the agent framework. Thank you.
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:25 PM, maanas <sonlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you please advice what is the recommended method for configuring > snmpd.conf > > Issue: snmp agent is sending multiple traps for the same host(s) > > 1) lets start with valid working state where snmpd.conf has some basic > configuration (entries) and snmpd is up and running > 2) Want to perform some new configurations like adding / removing new trap > destination host IP addresses with trapsess / trap2sink entries to > snmpd.conf > 3) A new file snmpd.conf is completely rewritten with its current entries > and new configuration entries are added to the file (snmpd.conf) and copy > this file to snmpd.conf standard path which is read by snmp agent. > 4) Then call snmpd.c::netsnmp_reconfig() API to read new configuration > values. > 5) snmpd still runs and performs reconfigure steps using new configuration > file (which has old entries and as well as new entries). > 6) After the step 5 then system behaves incorrect. For any event / alarm > generated in the system then snmp agent sends more and more traps to the > same hosts and this count depends on how many times the configuration > changes are performed on snmpd.conf file > > This clearly indicates that the procedure followed is wrong and appears > that snmpd is learning same hosts addresses many times with snmpd.conf > entries? Should it suppose to learn and populate only 1 entry per host > while it configures and populates the snmpTargetAddrTable? Is there any > other parameters which does sending multiple traps? like repeater / retry > count etc? > > What is the correct way to create/update the configuration file for adding > / removing entries in snmpd.conf? I appreciate your help and any inputs / > pointers on this model. > > Thanks, > Maanas >
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