<I'm not sure what you mean by shipping snmpd "with" the subagent. > We have a seperate daemon which does various things, but among them sends SNMP (v2) traps using net-snmp libraries and interfaces (such as "send_v2trap(), etc.). So, that is what I refer to as a 'subagent'. Then, there's net-snmp's snmpd daemon ( found in /usr/local/sbin) that is refered to as the 'master agent'. Therefore, when we ship our product, we will have to ship our net-snmp built daemon (or 'subagent') with net-snmp's snmpd 'master agent'.
Therefore, I'm saying that it would be nice if our subagent as described above wasn't dependant on the net-snmp master agent (snmpd) but rather could work directly with the Solaris native master agent (snmpdx). Otherwise, we have to ship the net-snmp master agent (snmpd) with our subagent. This is what I'm investigating. Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Shield Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 10:36 AM To: Smith, Randy Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Can AIX Native SNMPD Daemon Be Used In Conjuntion With a NET-SNMP Built Subagents? On 01/02/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, as I re-read the README.solaris doc I realized that maybe I > misread and that in fact the net-snmpd 'snmpd' daemon still has to run > along side of the Solaris native 'snmpdx' for a net-snmp subagent to > run? Well, if you're running the net-snmp stuff as a "subagent", then it needs to have some form of "master agent" to be a subagent of. That's pretty much inherent in the whole idea of "subagents". (The name is a bit of a giveaway!) Yes - Section 7 of README.solaris is specifically discussing the case of running Net-SNMP as a subagent of the native Solaris snmpdx agent. > Our problem is that the customer, who uses Solaris, may not, or probably > won't be thrilled with us having to ship the 'snmpd' daemon with the > subagent (and the net-snmp libs of course) to run our subagent on their > boxes. I'm not sure what you mean by shipping snmpd "with" the subagent. If you are incorporating a MIB implemented using the Net-SNMP suite into the Solaris snmpdx framework, then (the net-snmp) snmpd binary *is* the subagent. If your customer isn't prepared to run a subagent, then they can't get the benefit of any information that it provides. And if they _are_ happy to run a subagent, then the steps described in Section 7 lay out what is required to do this within the Solaris snmpdx framework. Regardless of what software implements that subagent. If you want to reduce the complexity of this process, then you could: a) Compile the suite statically, so your customers don't have to worry about libraries - just a single standalone binary. b) Strip out most of the standard Net-SNMP MIB modules (since this information would presumably be provided by the Solaris agent). Try "configure --enable-mini-agent" and add your MIB modules to that. > I don't expect you guys to perform miracles, Perhaps if snmpdx supported > agentX, would a net-snmp subagent be able to talk directly to that guy > instead of having to tunnel through the net-snmp snmpd daemon? But you don't need *two* Net-SNMP agents - just have a single one, which sits as a subagent of the Solaris agent. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
