SNMPD.BOOTS

The SNMP agent uses the SNMPD.BOOTS configuration file to support SNMPv3 security. This file contains agent information used to authenticate the SNMPv3 requests. The SNMPD.BOOTS keeps the agent identifier and the number of times the agent reboots. If no SNMPD.BOOTS file exists when the agent is started, the agent creates one. You may want to add comments to the beginning of this file. If a file does exist, the agent uses the values specified in the file for setting its engineID and engineBoots values. If the file exists but contains incorrect values for engineID or engineBoots, the agent issues a message and terminates.

Notes:
  1. The recommended approach is to allow the SNMP agent to create the file.
  2. If the SNMPD.BOOTS file is not provided, the SNMP agent creates the file. If multiple SNMPv3 agents are running on the same MVS™ image, use the environment variable to specify different SNMPD.BOOTS files for the different agents. For security reasons, ensure unique engineIDs are used for different SNMP agents.
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