Starts the snmpmibd Distributed Protocol Interface (DPI) version 2 sub-agent daemon as a background process.
The snmpmibd command starts the snmpmibd Distributed Protocol Interface (DPI) version 2 (dpi2) sub-agent. This command may only be issued by a user with root privileges or by a member of the system group.
The snmpmibd daemon complies with the standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) DPI version 2.0 defined by RFC 1592. It acts as a dpi2 sub-agent to communicate with the dpi2 agent through dpiPortForTCP.0 (1.3.6.1.4.1.2.2.1.1.1.0) which is defined in RFC 1592 section 3.1.
The Management Information Base (MIB) is defined by RFC 1155(SMIv1) and RFC 2578(SMIv2).
For the RFC 4292, read-only access is provided to the variables.
For the RFC 4293, read and write access is provided to the ipv6IpForwarding variable and the ipv6IpDefaultHopLimit variable. Read-only access is provided to the other MIB variables. Both the server and the agent must use the SNMP v2c protocol or later, because some variables defined in this RFC cannot be accessed using the SNMP v1 protocol.
The snmpmibd daemon is normally executed during system startup when /etc/rc.tcpip shell script is called.
The snmpmibd daemon should be controlled using the System Resource Controller (SRC). Entering snmpmibd at the command line is not recommended.
Item | Description |
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-c community | Uses specified community name. If -c flag is not specified, the default community name is public. |
-d [level] | Specifies tracing/debug level. The levels are:
If -d flag is specified and the level is not specified, the default level is 56. If -d flag is not specified, the default level is 0. |
-f file | A non-default configuration file. If the -f flag is not specified, the default configuration file is /etc/snmpmibd.conf. See /etc/snmpmibd.conf file for information on this file format. |
-h hostname | Sends request to specified host. The value of the hostname attribute can be an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or a host name. If the -h flag is not specified, the default destination host is loopback (127.0.0.1). |
startsrc -s snmpmibd -a "-f /tmp/snmpmibd.conf"
This
command starts the snmpmibd daemon and reads the configuration
file from /tmp/snmpmibd.conf.stopsrc -s snmpmibd
This command returns
the name of the daemon, the process ID of the daemon, and the state
of the daemon (active or inactive).lssrc -ls snmpmibd
If
you are the root user, this long form of the status report lists the
configuration parameters in /etc/snmpmibd.conf.Item | Description |
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/etc/snmpmibd.conf | Defines the configuration parameters for snmpmibd command. |
/etc/mib.defs | Defines the Management Information Base (MIB) variables the SNMP agent and manager should recognize and handle. |