Commands Reference, Volume 5

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

/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.

Related Information

The snmpv3_ssw command.

The Network Management chapter in AIX 5L Version 5.2 System Management Guide: Communications and Networks.