Joan,
The Oracle intelligent agent which uses dbsnmp is not the problem here. The
real problem is the snmp agent that is running on the computer and owned by
root. Therefore your SA needs to do something, not you.
Dick Goulet
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Ray,
No, but I do have a SA who believes that to be true. I'll try to explain it
as he did.
The DBSNMP agent registers a MIB with the snmp agent. It is the snmp agent
that has the interface to the world. As he put it, it's not the back end that
has the problem, but the front end
As I have done a bit of networking and set up stuff to monitor equipment
with SNMP I will confirm that SNMP uses a port that the snmpd or
equivalent listens to and then passes the request to the appropriate
process depending on what is registered with the snmpd. This is usually
done on unix
