Files Reference

snmpd.boots File

Purpose

Provides the boot and engine ID information for the snmpdv3 agent.

Description

The snmpt.boots file provides the boot and engine ID information for the snmpdv3 agent. The file contains two elements: an engineID, and, engineBoots, the number of times that the snmpv3 daemon has been started.

Syntax

engineID engineBoots

Where:

engineID

A string of 2 to 64 (must be an even number) hexadecimal digits. The engine identifier uniquely identifies the agent within an administrative domain. By default, the engine identifier is created using a vendor-specific formula and incorporates the IP address of the agent. However, a customer can choose to use any engine identifer that is consistent with the snmpEngineID definition in RFC 2271 and that is also unique within the administrative domain.

The first 8 hex digits represent a vendor enterprise ID obtained from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). For IBM, this is 00000002. The last 16 hex digits are determined by vendor formula. For IBM, this is:

• The first two hex digits indicate the content of the next fourteen hex digits.
• 00 indicates the next six hex digits are zeros, followed by the IP address of the agent in the last eight hex digits.
• 01 indicates the next six hex digits contain a timestamp, followed by the IP address of the agent in the last eight hex digits.

For the agent, we always use the one without a timestamp, so the engineID for an SNMP agent at IP address 9.67.113.10 would be:

00000002 00000000 09 43 71 0A

(Spaces added to improve readability)

engineBoots

The number of times (in decimal) the agent has been restarted since the engineID was last changed.

1. engineID and engineBoots must be specified in order and on the same line.
2. Comments are specified in the file by starting the line with either an asterisk (*) or a pound sign (#).
3. No comments are allowed between engineID and engineBoots values.
4. Only the first non-comment line is read. Subsequent lines are ignored.

Example

The first string of numbers is the engineID, the second string is the number of times the snmpv3 daemon has been started.

00000002000000000903E65F 0000000003  

Files

Related Information

The snmpdv3 command.

Problem Determination for the SNMP Daemon, Trap Processing, Understanding the SNMP Daemon Logging Facility in AIX 5L Version 5.2 System Management Guide: Communications and Networks.

Understanding the SNMP Daemon in AIX 5L Version 5.2 System Management Guide: Communications and Networks.