Re: [NV-L] SNMP Logging - Oddity

[Leslie Clark <lclark@us.ibm.com>]

Well that's one for my files. Thanks
for that, Don.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IT Services Specialist, Network Mgmt
Information Technology Services Americas
IBM Global Services
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager

"Davis, Donald" <donald.davis@firstcitizens.com>
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03/09/2007 02:59 PM

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Subject	[NV-L] SNMP Logging - Oddity

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
logging          
     size=0              
           level=3
 
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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