Strange snmpd messages

Ben bda20 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Jul 2 05:36:05 CDT 2007


Hi all,

In the last few days we've been seeing huge chunks of these every so often 
in /var/log/messages:

Jul  2 10:59:54 niven snmpd[4610]: Connection from - 10.0.65.4
Jul  2 10:59:54 niven snmpd[4610]: transport socket = 12
Jul  2 10:59:54 niven snmpd[4610]: Connection from - 10.0.65.4
Jul  2 10:59:54 niven snmpd[4610]: transport socket = 12

(where niven is 10.0.65.4)

Does anyone know why these would be occuring and why we haven't noticed them 
before?  I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling OMSA to ensure the drivers 
are built for the right kernel but it hasn't stopped them.

I found this RH FAQ entry: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_40_10731.shtm but 
it's odd as I thought OMSA included its own SNMP daemon rather than using 
the OS-installed one.  Not only that but chkconfig has told me that snmp is 
not being started at boot.  Therefore it appears that OMSA _is_ starting the 
OS's version and not its own.  All a little bit strange.

Details: PowerEdge 2950, RHEL4 u5 x86_64 (2.6.9-55.0.2.ELsmp), OMSA 5.0.0

What other information would help?

Ben
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