snmpd Daemon

Purpose

Starts the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent as a background process.

Syntax

Refer to the syntax for either the snmpdv1 daemon or the snmpdv3 daemon.

Description

/usr/sbin/snmpd is a symbolic link to either the snmpdv1 daemon which supports only SNMP version 1, or to either the encrypted or non-encrypted version of the snmpdv3 daemon which supports SNMP version 3. For information about the snmpd daemon, please refer to the documentation of the appropriate version of the SNMP agent. On AIX® 5.2, the default SNMP agent running at system boot time is the non-encrypted version of the SNMP version 3 agent.
Note: The encrypted version of the SNMP version 3 agent is available from the AIX Expansion Pack.

Files

Item Description
/usr/sbin/snmpd Contains a symbolic link to either /usr/sbin/snmpdv1, /usr/sbin/snmpdv3e, or /usr/sbin/snmpdv3ne.
/usr/sbin/snmpdv1 Contains the SNMP version 1 agent.
/usr/sbin/snmpdv3e Contains the encrypted version of the SNMP version 3 agent.
/usr/sbin/snmpdv3ne Contains the non-encrypted version of the SNMP version 3 agent.