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Page title

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Purpose

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Location

Move this page outside of your home branch.

Guidelines

Announcement Support for this product will end on November 3, 2025. We recommend that you use PATROL for Linux, PATROL for AIX, or PATROL for Solaris to monitor operating systems.

Determining if Any SNMP Managers are Listening


This task describes how to determine if any SNMP Managers are configured in either the agent configuration variable /snmp/piV1m_list or in the SNMP configuration file, snmpmagt.cfg, or both and are listening on the default port. It demonstrates that BMC PATROL can make SNMP queries to the industry standard SNMP query port, 161.

Before you begin

This task uses the PSL command, Snmp_h_get( ), which automatically uses the port number defined in the agent configuration variable /snmp/default_port.

To Determine if any SNMP Managers are Listening

  1. Access the SNMPHealth application menu as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes.
  2. Select Test PATROL SNMP System > SNMP Query Using snmp_h_get( ). BMC PATROL displays the SNMP Query Using snmp_h_get( ) dialog box.
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  3. Click OK.
     BMC PATROL writes the information to a BMC PATROL task object [SNMP Query Using snmp_h_get( )] in the UNIX OS container.
  4. Access the SNMP Query Using snmp_h_get( ) task object as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes and view the results. Your results should resemble this example:
host:           <inventory_db_dallas>
oid:            <.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0>

SNMP Query using snmp_h_get()... UDP port 161:

Note

If an SNMP manager is not listening on port 161, PATROL times out and returns an error (errorno=95).

Related topics

SNMPHealth-SNMPHealth

Monitoring-the-health-of-SNMP

SNMP-Configuration

Status-of-SNMP-Agents

Tests-SNMP-Functionality

 

 

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