While we are on the subject of SNMP
oddities.
This is NOT a NetView problem, but, I thought
All on AIX would be interested in this one.
I discovered this
one when I rebooted my NetView server for the DST "TZ" environment variable
change needed for this weekend.
I am running on AIX
5.2-ML06 and am not able to apply all the patches to AIX required for
DST.
I had turned SNMP
logging on at one time to try to diagnose a problem with the following settings
:
logging
file=/trace/snmpd.log
enabled
logging
size=0
level=3
When I was finished,
I simply changed enabled to disabled, mistakenly thinking this would turn
logging off.
logging
file=/trace/snmpd.log
disabled
Changing enabled to disabled stops writing
the data to the file but does NOT stop
logging.
I rebooted the server with a terminal
(Cyclades Terminal Server) connected to tty0.
When the server came up to the Login:
prompt I discovered that all of the SNMP traps being received by NetView were
being spewed to the console port. It took me a while to figure out what
was happening. I blindly typed stopsrc -s snmpd and the spewing stopped. When I
restarted SNMP the spewing started again. To stop the incoming traps from being
written to the console, logging must be commented out completely like
this.
#logging
file=/trace/snmpd.log
enabled
#logging
size=0
level=3
Hope this helps
someone prevent a little grief.
I was in panic mode
for a few minutes.
Regards.
Don
Davis
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