snmpd Daemon

Purpose

Starts the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent as a background process.

Syntax

Refer to the syntax for either the snmpdv1 daemon or the snmpdv3 daemon.

Description

/usr/sbin/snmpd is a symbolic link to to either the encrypted or non-encrypted version of the snmpdv3 daemon which supports SNMP version 3.
Note: The encrypted version of the SNMP version 3 agent is available from the AIX® Expansion Pack.

Files

Item Description
/usr/sbin/snmpd Contains a symbolic link to either /usr/sbin/snmpdv1, /usr/sbin/snmpdv3e, or /usr/sbin/snmpdv3ne.
/usr/sbin/snmpdv1 Contains the SNMP version 1 agent.
/usr/sbin/snmpdv3e Contains the encrypted version of the SNMP version 3 agent.
/usr/sbin/snmpdv3ne Contains the non-encrypted version of the SNMP version 3 agent.