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NAME

       snmp_config - overview of Net-SNMP configuration files

SYNOPSIS

       snmp_config

DESCRIPTION

       This  page  gives  an  overview of the various configuration files used by the Net-SNMP software that is shipped with the Solaris operating
       system.

       In a configuration file, lines beginning with a hash character (#) are treated as a comment and are not parsed.

   Search Order
       By default, the Net-SNMP applications look for configuration files in the following directories in the order listed:

       1.  /etc/sma/snmp

       2.  /usr/sfw/lib

       3.  $HOME/.snmp

       In each of these directories, the Net-SNMP applications look for files with the extensions .conf and local.conf, in that order.

       The default search path described above can be overridden by setting the environment variable SNMPCONFPATH to  a  colon-separated  list	of
       directories.  SNMPCONFPATH  is  used to allow users to place configuration files in specific directories for their application needs.  Cur-
       rently defaulted to /etc/sma/snmp and /usr/local/share/snmp.

       Applications that store persistent data will also look in the /var/net-snmp directory for configuration files.

   Switching Configuration Types in Mid-File
       You can switch in mid-file the configuration type that the parser is supposed to be reading. For example, assume you want to turn on packet
       dumping	output	for  the agent by default, but you do not want to turn on packet dumping for the rest of the applications (such as snmpget
       and snmpwalk). Normally, to enable packet dumping, you would enter a line such as the one below in the snmp.conf file:

       dumpPacket true

       Such a line turns on packet dumping for all of the applications. Instead, you can put the same line in  the  snmpd.conf	file  so  that	it
       applies only to the snmpd daemon. However, you need to tell the parser to expect this line. You do this by putting a special, type-specifi-
       cation token inside square brackets. For example, inside your snmpd.conf file you can enter:

       [snmp] dumpPacket true

       This tells the parser to parse the line as if it were inside a snmp.conf file instead of an snmpd.conf file. If you want to parse  multiple
       lines  rather  than just one, you can make the context switch apply to the remainder of the file or until the next context switch directive
       by putting the special token on a line by itself:

       # make this file handle snmp.conf tokens:
       [snmp]
       dumpPacket true
       logTimestamp true
       # return to our original snmpd.conf tokens:
       [snmpd]
       rocommunity mypublic

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsmcmd 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       snmpd.conf(4), attributes(5), sma_snmp(5)

SunOS 5.10							    16 Jan 2004 						    snmp_config(4)