Configuration File Types

Chapter 5 Understanding SNMP

SNMP Traps

These files are optional and are only used to configure the extensible portions of the agent, the values of the community strings, and the optional trap destinations. By default, the first community string (“public” by default) is allowed read-only access and the second (“private” by default) is allowed write access, as well. The third to fifth community strings are also read-only.

Additionally, the above default search path can be over-ridden by setting the environmental variable SNMPCONFPATH to a colon-separated list of directories to search.

Finally, applications that store persistent data will also look for configuration files in the /var/snmp directory.

Each application may use multiple configuration files which will configure various different aspects of the application. For instance, the SNMP agent (snmpd) knows how to understand configuration directives in both the snmpd.conf and the snmp.conf files. In fact, most applications understand how to read the contents of the snmp.conf files. Note, however, that configuration directives understood in one file may not be understood in another file. For further information, read the associated manual page with each configuration file type. Also, most of the applications support a '-H' switch on the command line that will list the configuration files it will look for and the directives in each one that it understands.

The snmp.conf configuration file is intended to be a application suite-wide configuration file that supports directives that are useful for controlling the fundamental nature of all of the SNMP applications, such as how they all manipulate and parse the textual SNMP MIB files.

Switching Configuration Files in Mid-File

It's possible to switch in mid-file the configuration type that the parser is supposed to be reading. Since that output for the agent by default, but you didn't want to do that for the rest of the applications (for example, snmpget and snmpwalk, you would need to put a line like the following into the snmp.conf file.

dumpPacket true

But, this would turn it on for all of the applications. So, instead, you can put the same line in the snmpd.conf file so that it only applies to the snmpd demon. However, you need to tell the parser to expect this line. You do this by putting a special type specification token inside a square bracket ([ ]) set. In other words, inside your snmpd.conf file you could put the above snmp.conf directive by adding a line like the following:

[snmp] dumpPacket true

This tells the parser to parse the above line as if it were inside a snmp.conf file instead of an snmpd.conf file. If you want to parse a bunch of lines rather than just one then 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]

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Cisco Access Registrar 3.5 Concepts and Reference Guide

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3.5 specifications

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