Strange snmpd messages

[Ben]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com wrote:

> OMSA does use its own SNMP daemon, but the way it's configured is that it 
> sets itself up as a SMUX peer of the OS snmpd. This means that for any 
> requests under the OMSA OID the OS snmpd will forward to the OMSA SNMP 
> daemon. That is the connection that you are seeing.

Excellent, thanks.

In the end I went with

OPTIONS=" -LE 6 -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a"

in /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options (so as not to edit the init script for 
snmpd).  This seems to have done the trick.  OMSA is the only thing we use 
SNMP for on these machines so this is a good solution for us.

Thanks again,

Ben
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