On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:00:56 -0800 website reader <website.read...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just now discovered a symbolic link in my /var folder area called > "agentx" which links to the /run/agentx executable (which is not > there) > > Should I be concerned about this? Just a quick glance seems to > reveal that it is both a monitoring program and controller for the > Linux kernel. It appears to be some type of snmp program. > > My machine is openSuse v13.1 linux. > > I appreciate some feedback here, thanks. > > Randall Okay, here's what yum had to say about agentx: $ yum search agentx <yummy-blither deleted> amavisd-new-snmp.noarch : Exports amavisd SNMP data $ yum info amavisd-new-snmp <yummy-blither deleted, Description: follows> This package contains the program amavisd-snmp-subagent, which can be used as a SNMP AgentX, exporting amavisd statistical counters database (snmp.db) as well as a child process status database (nanny.db) to a SNMP daemon supporting the AgentX protocol (RFC 2741), such as NET-SNMP. It is similar to combined existing utility programs amavisd-agent and amavisd-nanny, but instead of writing results as text to stdout, it exports data to a SNMP server running on a host (same or remote), making them available to SNMP clients (such a Cacti or mrtg) for monitoring or alerting purposes. Researching RFC 2741 is left as an exercise for the student. :-) Since the agentx program isn't there, I'd delete the symlink; it serves no good purpose. Hope this helps. --Dale -- "I recall hearing that highly-classified data must be destroyed by physically shredding the medium. Yes, throw your disk drive in the shredder! (Just imagine the class of machinery required to digest an RA81 HDA.)" -- Mark Wood on linux-kernel
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