Using A Proxy Snmp Agent (Unix/Linux) - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Using a Proxy SNMP Agent (UNIX/Linux)

Table 10-2
If your server meets these conditions....
• Native agent is currently running
• No SMUX
• Needs to continue using native agent
• Native agent is currently running
• SMUX supported
Using a Proxy SNMP Agent (UNIX/Linux)
You need to use a proxy SNMP agent when you already have a native agent
running, and you want to use continue using it concurrently with an Enterprise
Server master agent. Before you start, be sure to stop the native master agent. (See
your system documentation for detailed information.)
NOTE
This section includes the following topics:
232 Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide • August 2002
Overview of procedures for enabling SNMP master agents and subagents
To use a proxy agent, you'll need to install it and then start it. You'll also
have to restart the native SNMP master agent using a port number other
Enterprise Server
than the one the
Installing the Proxy SNMP Agent
Starting the Proxy SNMP Agent
Restarting the Native SNMP Daemon
...follow these procedures. These are
discussed in detail in the following sections.
1. Install a proxy SNMP agent.
2. Start the proxy SNMP agent.
3. Restart the native agent using a port
number other than the master agent
port number.
4. Start the master agent.
5. Enable the subagent for each server
installed on the system.
1. Reconfigure the SNMP native agent.
2. Enable the subagent for each server
installed on the system.
master agent is running on.