Enabling And Starting The Snmp Master Agent - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 04-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Check whether an SNMP daemon (
2.
If no SNMP daemon is running, go to Step 4.
If an SNMP daemon is running, make sure you know how to restart it and
which MIB trees it supports.
If an SNMP daemon is running, kill its process.
3.
In the Server Manager, choose the SNMP Master Agent Trap page from the
4.
Global Settings tab. The Manager Entries page appears.
Type the name of the system that is running your network management
5.
software.
Type the port number at which your network management system listens for
6.
traps. (The well-known port is 162.) For more information on traps, see
"Configuring Trap Destinations" on page 242.
Type the community string you want to use in the trap. For more information
7.
on community strings, see "Configuring the Community String" on page 242.
Click OK.
8.
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
file using the Server Manager, or you can edit the file
CONFIG
ps -ef | grep snmp
kill -9 pid
Enabling and Starting the SNMP Master Agent
) is running on port 161.
snmpd
to check if
to end the process. The CGIs for
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CONFIG
is running. If
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