Starts the hostmibd dpi2 sub-agent daemon as a background process.
hostmibd [-f File] [-d [Level]] [-h Hostname] [-c Community]
The hostmibd command starts the hostmibd dpi2 sub-agent. This command may only be issued by a user with root privileges or by a member of the system group.
The hostmibd daemon complies with the standard Simple Network Management Protocol Distributed Protocl Interface Version 2.0 defined by RFC 1592. It is acting 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 RFC1592 section 3.1.
The Management Information Base (MIB) is defined by RFC 1155. The specific MIB variables hostmibd is managing are defined by RFC 1514. The actual MIB variables managed by hostmibd are the following 4 subtrees:
The hostmibd daemon is normally executed during system startup when /etc/rc.tcpip shell script is called.
The hostmibd daemon should be controlled using the System Resource Controller(SRC). Entering hostmibd at the command line is not recommended.
Use the following SRC commands to manipulate the hostmibd daemon:
startsrc -s hostmibd -a "-f /tmp/hostmibd.conf"This command starts the hostmibd daemon and reads the configuration file from /tmp/hostmibd.conf.
stopsrc -s hostmibdThis command stops the hostmibd daemon. The -s flag specified the subsystem that follows to be stopped.
lssrc -s hostmbidThis command returns the name of the daemon, the process ID of the daemon, and the state of the daemon (active or inactive).
lssrc -ls hostmibdIf you are the root user, this long form of the status report lists the configuration parameters in /etc/hostmibd.conf.
/etc/hostmibd.conf | Defines the configuration parameters for hostmibd command. |
/etc/mib.defs | Defines the Management Information Base (MIB) variables the SNMP agent and manager should recognize and handle. |
The snmpdv3 daemon, snmpmibd daemon.