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Dependencies of PATROL SNMP

The PATROL Agent communicates with both SNMP Managers and SNMP Agents. It communicates with the SNMP Managers through the SNMP Master Agent. For full functionality, the PATROL Master Agent must be running.

While you do not have to have the PATROL SNMP Master Agent and subagent running on the same computer, you do have to have an SNMP Agent that supports SMUX protocol because the subagent looks for a master agent. If the subagent does not find a master agent, it tries to start the PATROL SNMP Master Agent and tries to connect again.

By default, some operating systems do not use SMUX-compliant SNMP Master Agents.

The snmp subagent must be active if you want to use the following features:

  • Use PSL snmp_trap_send to send snmp traps
  • Send built-in automatic snmp traps (the snmp traps that get generated when events configured with SEND_TRAP are generated)
  • To make and respond to snmp requests

 

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BMC PATROL Agent 9.5