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How do I configure the agent?

That depends on what you want it to do, and what stage of the process you have in mind. There are actually two very distinct ways you can configure the agent.

Firstly, you can determine what capabilities and defaults are included within the library and agent, at the time that the software is first built. This uses suitable flags to the configure script, before compiling the source. As far as the agent is concerned, the most significant option is '--with-mib-modules' (or '--with-out-mib-modules') to control which MIBs will be supported by the agent. See the next few entries for details.

You can also control various aspects of the agent behaviour (and the information it returns) at run time, via the snmpd.conf configuration file. Various aspects of this are touched on throughout this FAQ. Or see the snmpd.conf(5) manual page for full details. The "snmpconf" script can help in creating this config file. Start off with 'snmpconf -g basic_setup' to get you going.

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1. What MIBs are supported?
2. What protocols are supported?
3. How do I configure the agent?
4. How do I remove a MIB from the agent?
5. I've installed a new MIB file. Why can't I query it?
6. How do I add a MIB to the agent?
7. What's the difference between 'exec', 'sh' and 'pass'?
8. What's the difference between AgentX, SMUX and proxied SNMP?
9. What about 'dlmod' - what's that about?
10. Which should I use?
11. Can I use AgentX when running under Windows?
12. Can I use AgentX (or an embedded SNMP agent) in a threaded application?
13. How can I run AgentX with a different socket address?
14. How can I turn off SMUX support?
15. How can I combine two copies of the 'mib2' tree from separate subagents?
16. What traps are sent by the agent?
17. Where are these traps sent to?
18. How can I send a particular trap to selected destinations?
19. When I run the agent it runs and then quits without staying around. Why?
20. After a while the agent stops responding, and starts eating CPU time. Why?
21. How can I stop other people getting at my agent?
22. How can I listen on just one particular interface?
23. How do I configure access control?
24. I don't understand the new access control stuff - what does it mean?
25. How do I configure SNMPv3 users?
26. The 'createUser' line disappears when I start the agent. Why?
27. What's the difference between /var/net-snmp and /usr/local/share/snmp?
28. My new agent is ignoring the old snmpd.conf file. Why?
29. Why am I getting "Connection refused"?
30. Why can't I see values in the UCDavis 'extensible' or 'disk' trees?
31. Why can't I see values in the UCDavis 'memory' or 'vmstat' tree?
32. What do the CPU statistics mean - is this the load average?
33. How do I get percentage CPU utilization using ssCpuRawIdle?
34. What about multi-processor systems?
35. The speed/type of my network interfaces is wrong - how can I fix it?
36. The interface statistics for my subinterfaces are all zero - why?
37. Does the agent support the RMON-MIB?
38. What does "klread: bad address" mean?
39. What does "nlist err: wombat not found" (or similar) mean?
40. How about "Can't open /dev/kmem"?
41. The agent is complaining about 'snmpd.conf'. Where is this?
42. The system uptime (sysUpTime) returned is wrong!
43. Can the agent run multi-threaded?