SNMP IN SOLARIS
The SNMP agent in Solaris works in the master agent — subagent model. The SNMP master agent is started at boot time. The master agent snmpdx is present in the /usr/lib/snmp directory. It is started by the /etc/rc3.d/S76snmpdx initialization script in run level 3. It starts listening to the UDP port number 161 for SNMP requests. It reads different configuration files and invokes various subagents. It also opens another port to listen to traps sent to the master agent from subagents. Depending on its configuration, it forwards these traps to one or more SNMP management stations for notification. The master agent has the following functions:
Invokes subagents
Sends requests to subagents
Receives responses from subagents
Communicates ...
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