snmpd dead

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

I am getting this message from the remote server:
Agent snmpd appeared dead but responded to ping
Please let me know what this mean?


Thanks
Sunny

[Coolmar · Accepted solution]

Hi Sunny, this looks to be a Solaris error. I found the following info though:

"In case anyone else wonders about this, apparently it is caused by the snmpd agent shutting itself off when they receive too many bad packets. Even bad community strings will cause the problem.

Check snmpd.conf and snmpdx.acl (the .acl file needs to be configured with the recent recommended patch clusters). Look for things that might be producing packets with a community string that you don't have configured.

If all else fails, edit /etc/init.d/init.snmpdx so you run snmpdx with the undocumented "-f 0" option. This will at least stop the error messages from showing up in your logs."

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Check if snmp daemon is up and running on remote server

ps -ef |grep snmpd and you should see following response back

root 1254 1 0 Nov 9 ? 0:29 /usr/sbin/snmpdm

Execute the following command to start SNMP:

/usr/sbin/snmpd

-USA..