Jane,
If you have "monitor" or "topas" on your NetView server (I'm on
AIX), it is very educational to watch the different things happening on the
server. I am responding to your "Not sure whether NetView does" comment in
regards to talking to itself on the loopback. YES it does continuously. If
netmon, trapd, or any of the other daemons get busy you will see the I/O
rate go up on the loopback while the different processes talk to each other
and to the database.
Try it and see,
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Curry [mailto:jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:03 AM
To: Bursik, Scott {PBSG}; NetView mailing list
Subject: Re: [nv-l] AIX SNMP Configuration
This is for the system to permit access to itself, from itself, using
the loopback address, rather than his external name or IP address. You
get read / write access with a community name of "system". The 1.17.2
is a "view" parameter that is almost never used but is there to
restrict the amount of the MIB that you get access to (you should find a
line further down that defines the 1.17.2 view as pretty well everything).
It's only really valid when a box is both an SNMP agent and an SNMP
manager - ie if you have NetView or a Mid Level Manager (MLM) on the
box. If you do have MLM's around, make sure this is setup and that the
ovsnmp.conf used by the MLM is also configured to match it. I believe
that an MLM sometimes talks to itself on the loopback address. Not sure
whether NetView does, but I would always make sure this line is active
on a NetView box and that my NetView ovsnmp.conf matches it.
Cheers,
Jane
Bursik, Scott {PBSG} wrote:
> AIX 4.3.3 NetView 6.0.3
>
> This is a little off topic, but I am attempting to tighten the SNMP
> security on some of our nodes and I have a question about one of the
> lines in the snmpd.conf file. Can anyone tell me what this line might
> be for? I understand the format, I just don't know why it is here. Is
> it some system default? Can I remove it safely?
>
>
> community system 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 readWrite 1.17.2
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott Bursik
> Event Systems Management
> Pepsico Business Solutions Group
> (972) 334-3757
> scott.bursik@pbsg.com
>
>
>
>
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