SNMPD and INSIGHTD not starting

[anthony m. gonzales]

Hello,

After I modified snmpd.conf with a new community name and ip address I issue a /sbin/init.d/insightd stop
/sbin/init.d/snmpd stop

then:
/sbin/init.d/snmp start
/sbin/init.d/insightd start

All I get is the root user prompt back. No indication if the daemons are running. If I do a ps -ef|grep snmpd -- there is no daemon.
Same with insightd.

The permissions are set to 660...
What am I missing?

Thanks,
Anthony

[marsh_1]

hi,

what version of tru64 / insight agents is running here ?
have you checked in /usr/var/adm/syslog.dated/'date'/daemon.log

hth

[anthony m. gonzales]

Hi,

I am running 4.4.3 and the daemon.log file does not have any data in it. I have an identical system that started up snmp and insight correctly. I modified snmpd.conf the say way. The only difference was the ip address. Same community and all.

Thanks,
Tony

[Mark Poeschl_2]

What do you see if you run snmpd in trace mode?

# /sbin/init.d/snmpd stop
# /usr/sbin/snmpd -t -d

[anthony m. gonzales]

Mark and all,

It just now was resolved. I compared the /usr/sbin/snmpd and insightd files and they were 0 length. I copied them from the backup system and voila'...It all works now. Now I have to figure how the files were 0 length.

Thanks to all that help,
Anthony

[marsh_1 · Accepted solution]

hi,

normal procedure is to stop insightd , stop snmpd , do your edits then restart snmpd , restart insightd. this may have been the cause of your problem.

see examples in insight management agents user guide here :-

http://h30097.www3.hp.com/cma/docs/eng/Tru64IMAv37.pdf

hth

[anthony m. gonzales]

That is the most likely scenario as I did not do stop/starts in the correct sequence.

Thanks again,
Anthony