SNMPD(8) Net-SNMP SNMPD(8)
NAME
snmpd - daemon to respond to SNMP request packets.
SYNOPSIS
snmpd [OPTIONS] [LISTENING ADDRESSES]
DESCRIPTION
snmpd is an SNMP agent which binds to a port and awaits requests from SNMP management software. Upon
receiving a request, it processes the request(s), collects the requested information and/or performs
the requested operation(s) and returns the information to the sender.
OPTIONS
-a Log the source addresses of incoming requests.
-A Append to the log file rather than truncating it.
-c FILE Read FILE as a configuration file (or a comma-separated list of configuration files). Note
that the loaded file will only understand snmpd.conf tokens, unless the configuration type is
specified in the file as described in the snmp_config man page under SWITCHING CONFIGURATION
TYPES IN MID-FILE.
-C Do not read any configuration files except the ones optionally specified by the -c option.
Note that this behaviour also covers the persistent configuration files. This may result in
dynamically-assigned values being reset following an agent restart, unless the relevant per-sistent persistent
sistent config files are explicitly loaded using the -c option.
-d Dump (in hexadecimal) the sent and received SNMP packets.
-D[TOKEN[,...]]
Turn on debugging output for the given TOKEN(s). Without any tokens specified, it defaults
to printing all the tokens (which is equivalent to the keyword "ALL"). You might want to try
ALL for extremely verbose output. Note: You can not put a space between the -D flag and the
listed TOKENs.
-f Do not fork() from the calling shell.
-g GID Change to the numerical group ID GID after opening listening sockets.
-h, --help
Display a brief usage message and then exit.
-H Display a list of configuration file directives understood by the agent and then exit.
-I [-]INITLIST
Specifies which modules should (or should not) be initialized when the agent starts up. If
the comma-separated INITLIST is preceded with a '-', it is the list of modules that should
not be started. Otherwise this is the list of the only modules that should be started.
To get a list of compiled modules, run the agent with the arguments -Dmib_init -H (assuming
debugging support has been compiled in).
-L[efos]
Specify where logging output should be directed (standard error or output, to a file or via
syslog). See LOGGING OPTIONS in snmpcmd(5) for details.
-m MIBLIST
Specifies a colon separated list of MIB modules to load for this application. This overrides
the environment variable MIBS. See snmpcmd(1) for details.
-M DIRLIST
Specifies a colon separated list of directories to search for MIBs. This overrides the envi-ronment environment
ronment variable MIBDIRS. See snmpcmd(1) for details.
-n NAME Set an alternative application name (which will affect the configuration files loaded). By
default this will be snmpd, regardless of the name of the actual binary.
-p FILE Save the process ID of the daemon in FILE.
-q Print simpler output for easier automated parsing.
-r Do not require root access to run the daemon. Specifically, do not exit if files only acces-sible accessible
sible to root (such as /dev/kmem etc.) cannot be opened.
-u UID Change to the user ID UID (which can be given in numerical or textual form) after opening
listening sockets.
-U Instructs the agent to not remove its pid file (see the -p option) on shutdown. Overrides the
leave_pidfile token in the snmpd.conf file, see snmpd.conf(5).
-v, --version
Print version information for the agent and then exit.
-V Symbolically dump SNMP transactions.
-x ADDRESS
Listens for AgentX connections on the specified address rather than the default
AGENTX_SOCKET. The address can either be a Unix domain socket path, or the address of a net-work network
work interface. The format is the same as the format of listening addresses described below.
-X Run as an AgentX subagent rather than as an SNMP master agent.
--name="value"
Allows to specify any token ("name") supported in the snmpd.conf file and sets its value to
"value". Overrides the corresponding token in the snmpd.conf file. See snmpd.conf(5) for the
full list of tokens.
LISTENING ADDRESSES
By default, snmpd listens for incoming SNMP requests on UDP port 161 on all IPv4 interfaces. How-ever, However,
ever, it is possible to modify this behaviour by specifying one or more listening addresses as argu-ments arguments
ments to snmpd. A listening address takes the form:
[<transport-specifier>:]<transport-address>
At its simplest, a listening address may consist only of a port number, in which case snmpd listens
on that UDP port on all IPv4 interfaces. Otherwise, the <transport-address> part of the specifica-tion specification
tion is parsed according to the following table:
<transport-specifier> <transport-address> format
udp (default) hostname[:port] or IPv4-address[:port]
tcp hostname[:port] or IPv4-address[:port]
unix pathname
ipx [network]:node[/port]
aal5pvc or pvc [interface.][VPI.]VCI
udp6 or udpv6 or udpipv6 hostname[:port] or IPv6-address[:port]
tcp6 or tcpv6 or tcpipv6 hostname[:port] or IPv6-address[:port]
Note that <transport-specifier> strings are case-insensitive so that, for example, "tcp" and "TCP"
are equivalent. Here are some examples, along with their interpretation:
127.0.0.1:161 listen on UDP port 161, but only on the loopback interface. This prevents
snmpd being queried remotely. The port specification ":161" is not strictly
necessary since that is the default SNMP port.
TCP:1161 listen on TCP port 1161 on all IPv4 interfaces.
ipx:/40000 listen on IPX port 40000 on all IPX interfaces.
unix:/tmp/local-agent listen on the Unix domain socket /tmp/local-agent.
/tmp/local-agent is identical to the previous specification, since the Unix domain is assumed
if the first character of the <transport-address> is '/'.
PVC:161 listen on the AAL5 permanent virtual circuit with VPI=0 and VCI=161 (decimal)
on the first ATM adapter in the machine.
udp6:10161 listen on port 10161 on all IPv6 interfaces.
Note that not all the transport domains listed above will always be available; for instance, hosts
with no IPv6 support will not be able to use udp6 transport addresses, and attempts to do so will
result in the error "Error opening specified endpoint". Likewise, since AAL5 PVC support is only
currently available on Linux, it will fail with the same error on other platforms.
CONFIGURATION FILES
snmpd checks for the existence of and parses the following files:
/etc/snmp/snmp.conf
Common configuration for the agent and applications. See snmp.conf(5) for details.
/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
/etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf
Agent-specific configuration. See snmpd.conf(5) for details. These files are optional and may
be used to configure access control, trap generation, subagent protocols and much else besides.
In addition to these two configuration files in /etc/snmp, the agent will read any files with
the names snmpd.conf and snmpd.local.conf in a colon separated path specified in the SNMPCONF-PATH SNMPCONFPATH
PATH environment variable.
/usr/share/snmp/mibs/
The agent will also load all files in this directory as MIBs. It will not, however, load any
file that begins with a '.' or descend into subdirectories.
SEE ALSO
(in recommended reading order)
snmp_config(5), snmp.conf(5), snmpd.conf(5)
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