2010/5/27 Dave Shield <[email protected]>

> On 26 May 2010 16:55, Weiwei Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What happens in my test is that, when re-config is set, the agent snmpd
> read
> > the snmpd.conf, not the snmp.local.conf.
>
> No - the agent will read *both*  snmpd.conf (& snmpd.local.conf)
> for agent-specific configuration   *and*  snmp.conf  (& snmp.local.conf)
> for library configuration.
>
> But these contain different sets of directives.
>
> If the agent comes across agent-specific entries in snmp.conf (or
> snmp.local.conf)
> then it will ignore them - probably generating a warning.
> If the agent comes across library-specifci entries in snmpd.conf (or
> snmpd.local.conf)
> then it will also ignore them - again, generating a warning.

So it should be effective I change the snmpd.local.conf if I want the snmpd
to re-config its configuration.
I'll try more testing.

>
> > So I think it is the snmpd.conf that controls the agent's behavior.
>
> snmpd.conf controls the behaviour of the agent.
> snmp.conf controls the behaviour of the library (which may also affect
> the agent)

I didn't find the snmp.conf, maybe it is not included in my project.
Under /etc/snmp/, I only find the snmpd.conf and snmpd.local.conf.
You mentioned agent, do you mean process snmpd on linux system?

>
>
> > But I don't know what is the snmp.local.conf used for in net-snmp
> package.
> > Could you give me some hints, Dave?
>
> Please read the snmp.conf(5) man page.
>
> Dave
>



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Weiwei Zhang
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