Comments on: Using NET-SNMP and HP-UX SNMP together

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:58:21 +0000

O and I also tried this
root@commnms # su root /usr/local/bin/snmpconf
/usr/local/bin/snmpconf[9]: use: not found.
/usr/local/bin/snmpconf[10]: use: not found.
/usr/local/bin/snmpconf[11]: use: not found.
/usr/local/bin/snmpconf[12]: use: not found.
/usr/local/bin/snmpconf[13]: use: not found.
/usr/local/bin/snmpconf[14]: Syntax error at line 15 : `{‘ is not expected.
root@commnms #

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:56:44 +0000

I have not been able to use the HP Internet Express bundle as I have HPUX V11.11 and the net-snmp.depot files located on the link you provided are for newer versions of HPUX. So they will not run. So I downloaded the binary file from sourceforge and this is where I am at.

root@commnms # /usr/local/sbin/snmpd -f -Le -c /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
[init_smux] bind failed: Address already in use
Error opening specified endpoint “172.31.248.70:162″
Server Exiting with code 1
root@commnms # cat /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
rocommunity g0g0commnet
agentaddress 172.31.248.70:162
root@commnms #

I thought I would try and run the snmpconf command but that dose not work either I get this

# snmpconf
sh: snmpconf: not found.
# ./snmpconf
sh: ./snmpconf: Execute permission denied.
# su root
# ./snmpconf
sh: ./snmpconf: Execute permission denied

By: ddouthitt

ddouthitt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:12:26 +0000

You don’t need to build NET-SNMP yourself; you can just use HP’s Internet Express to take all of the hard stuff out of making it work.

Also, your command line doesn’t look like mine at all. What are the parameters “start” and “public” for? Sounds like you are confusing the server with the client. If you looked at the error code in $? you would probably find that snmpd exited with an error.

Try something like this:

/usr/local/sbin/snmpd -f -Le -c /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf

That might help. Also make sure your snmpd.conf is complete.

Or better yet, download and use HP Internet Express.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:32:08 +0000

thank you for your response. I am still not getting anything when trying to run the daemon even in debug mode. I see that on yours you are using the net-snmp client for internet express. I am not using that one. I am using a binary that was compiled for the HPUX that I downloaded of source forge. I would use the internet express version except I have been unable to obtain it for my system. I need the one for version B.11.11 and the ones on HP’s website are for B.11.23 and B.11.31 which will not load on the B.11.11 OS. here are the steps I have take to configure my system thus far along with the debug command I got from you above. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have been trying to get net-snmp working on a HPUX box for over a week now. I do not think it should be this difficult. I must be missing a step. this morning I tried once again and now not even the native HPUX agent is working so I have no SNMP monitoring. So here is where I am at. Any help would be greatly apreciated.

I stopped the HPUX agent
/sbin/init.d/SnmpFddi4 stop
/sbin/init.d/SnmpHpunix stop
/sbin/init.d/SnmpMaster stop
/sbin/init.d/SnmpMib2 stop
/sbin/init.d/SnmpTrpDst stop

I then installed the net-snmp client via the fallowing command

cd /
gzip -cd /tmp/net-snmp-5.4-1-HP-UX_B.11.11_9000_800.tar.gz | tar xvf -

I then created an snmpd.conf file
Create the file /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
with the fallowing lines

rocommunity public

Finally I started the net-snmp agent via
/usr/local/sbin/snmpd

Then I started the HPUX Agent
/sbin/init.d/SnmpFddi4 start
/sbin/init.d/SnmpHpunix start
/sbin/init.d/SnmpMaster start
/sbin/init.d/SnmpMib2 start
/sbin/init.d/SnmpTrpDst start

Before I did all this I was getting snmp monitoring via the native HPUX client but it was not giving me CPU and Memory information that is why I tried to install the net-snmp client. However now I am getting nothing what so ever.

HELP ultimately I would like to have HPUX-SNMP Agent and then the net-snmp agent running as well.
HPUX-Agent Port 161
Net-Agent Port 163

One other note I am running HPUX V11.11

Pleae note I am very new to HPUX so my knowledge is limited here.
Tags: HPUX V11.11 Native SNMP Agent & Net-SNMP Agent

Ran this debug command.

root@commnms # /usr/local/sbin/snmpd start -f -Le -c public /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
root@commnms #

By: ddouthitt

ddouthitt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:13:34 +0000

The net-snmp daemon uses the -L option to generate logging information, and the -c tells it which configuration file to use. I used this code to start it up:

snmpd -Ls daemon -p /var/tmp/net-snmpd -c /opt/iexpress/net-snmp/snmpd.conf

For debugging purposes, you can use this command:

snmpd -f -Le -c /opt/iexpress/net-snmp/snmpd.conf

With the -f the daemon will not go into the background, but will stay in the foreground where you can see what happens. The -Le will put errors onto the stderr output stream.

To create snmpd.conf to start with, use this command:

/opt/iexpress/net-snmp/bin/snmpconf -g basic_setup

This will walk you through creating a valid snmpd.conf.

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:59:51 +0000

I have tried the above but it seems my system is still only listening on the 161 port for the HPUX native client. I am running HPUX 11.11 and net-snmp. As far as I can tell the net-snmp agent start I did not get and error message or anything when I tried to start it. Any thoughts or suggestions.