I would look into what snmpd does when it receives a HUP signal. You didn't mention what version of net-snmp you are using. It's possible that there were some bugs that caused the behavior that you're observing. Can you see if this behavior still happens with 5.7.2.pre5?
Bill On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:26 PM, maanas <sonlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Net-snmp-users mailing list > Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users > >
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