SNMP question on Solaris

[mgrun]

Hi,

I keep getting this error message in /var/adm/messages. Does anybody know what this means and how to solve the problem.

/usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Agent snmpd appeared dead but responded to ping

I am using Solaris 8

Thanks,
Micha

Micha Grunberg
Unix Sys-Admin

 

[Mike042]

Hi gurus,

I am also getting exactly the same error message (in /var/adm/messages ) on a SunFire v1280 running Solaris 8.

Anyone any ideas what is causing it and even better, how to cure it ?

Thanks.

Mike

 

[daFranze]

Uncle Google knows a lot good sites...

In case anyone else wonders about this, apparently it is caused by the snmpd agent shutting itself off when they receive too many bad packets. Even bad community strings will cause the problem.

Check snmpd.conf and snmpdx.acl (the .acl file needs to be configured with the recent recommended patch clusters). Look for things that might be producing packets with a community string that you don't have configured.

If all else fails, edit /etc/init.d/init.snmpdx so you run snmpdx with the undocumented "-f 0" option. This will at least stop the error messages from showing up in your logs.

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years