Enabling And Starting The Snmp Master Agent; Starting The Master Agent On Another Port - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.0 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Enabling and Starting the SNMP Master Agent

In the Server Manager, the SNMP Master Agent Community page from the
9.
choose Global Settings tab. The Community Strings page appears.
Type the community string for the master agent.
10.
Choose an operation for the community.
11.
Click OK.
12.
Enabling and Starting the SNMP Master Agent
Master agent operation is defined in an agent configuration file named
You can edit the
manually. You must install the master SNMP agent before you can enable the
SNMP subagent.
If you get a bind error similar to "System Error: Could not bind to port," when
restarting the master agent, use
it is running, use the command
SNMP will then start working again.
This section includes the following topics:
•

Starting the Master Agent on Another Port

• Manually Configuring the SNMP Master Agent
• Editing the Master Agent CONFIG File
• Defining sysContact and sysLocation Variables
• Configuring the SNMP Master Agent
• Starting the SNMP Master Agent
Starting the Master Agent on Another Port
The Administration Interface will not start the SNMP master agent on ports other
than 161. However, you can manually start the master agent on another port using
the following steps:
Edit
1.
Run the start script as follows:
2.
cd /
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file using the Server Manager, or you can edit the file
CONFIG
server_root
/ /plugins/snmp/magt/CONFIG
server_root
/https-admserv
ps -ef | grep snmp
to end the process. The CGIs for
kill -9 pid
to specify the desired port.
CONFIG
to check if is running. If
magt
.