I am planning to disable SNMP in our AIX LPARs. wanted to see by disabling in a test LPAR.
before that, I would like to check disabling this SNMP will impact any of our application or database in anyway. what kind of other software depends on these SNMP daemons ?
Can you please let me know the exact use of SNMP in AIX. I understand that SNMP is used to collect information about network connected servers/routes/devices etc. (will it affect NFS file systems ? )
ours is a small shop. we never used SNMP config files to setup anything specially.
when we installed AIX 71, SNMP v3 non-encrypted version came along with it. please see details below. we never had an opportunity use SNMP agents/server for any purpose.
Please let me know disabling SNMP related daemons or services will cause any issues. thank you.
Last edited by system.engineer; 04-13-2016 at 05:57 PM..
As I mentioned earlier, ours is a small shop. AIX is not a primary/core OS in our environment.We do not have POWERHA/HACMP and We do not have any monitoring tool for AIX. Instead we use scripts for monitoring very few servers.
we never modified any of the SNMP config files after OS installation to support application.
As I mentioned earlier, ours is a small shop. AIX is not a primary/core OS in our environment.We do not have POWERHA/HACMP and We do not have any monitoring tool for AIX. Instead we use scripts for monitoring very few servers.
This suggests that you do not need SNMP, but to finally answer that question you simply will have to try.
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Originally Posted by system.engineer
we never modified any of the SNMP config files after OS installation to support application.
does this means Application will not use SNMP ?
No, it doesn't. I haven't installed AIX from scratch for a long time and i am not sure what the installation default of the SNMP-daemons is, but you can simply test that:
You may eventually see 4 running daemons: snmpd, aixmibd, hostmibd and snmpmibd. If so: SNMP is active. If not: then not. (duh ;-) )
If it is active: shut them offf via the SRC. The command is stopsrc -s <daemon>. See the description of the SRC (system resource controller), namely the command chssys to change the starting behaviour.
This depends on the network service and a general answer can't be given. You will have to determine which network services you need in particular and then find out if they rely on SNMP. What you have said so far indicated that you don't need it, but just try it and see what happens. In teh unlikely event of you having to start them again: use the startsrc command to start them via the SRC.
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