| README file for net-snmp Version: 5.6.2 |
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| DISCLAIMER |
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| The Authors assume no responsibility for damage or loss of system |
| performance as a direct or indirect result of the use of this |
| software. This software is provided "as is" without express or |
| implied warranty. |
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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| Disclaimer |
| Table Of Contents |
| Introduction |
| * Supported Architectures |
| Availability |
| Web Page |
| * Installation |
| Copying And Copyrights |
| * Frequently Asked Questions |
| Helping Out |
| * Code Update Announcements |
| * Mailing Lists |
| Agent Extensibility |
| Example Agent Configuration and Usage |
| Configuration |
| Submitting Bug Reports |
| Closing |
| Thanks |
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| * = Required Reading. |
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| INTRODUCTION |
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| This package was originally based on the CMU 2.1.2.1 snmp code. It |
| has been greatly modified, restructured, enhanced and fixed. It |
| hardly looks the same as anything that CMU has ever released. It |
| was renamed from cmu-snmp to ucd-snmp in 1995 and later renamed from |
| ucd-snmp to net-snmp in November 2000. |
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| This README file serves as a starting place to learn about the |
| package, but very little of the documentation is contained within |
| this file. The FAQ is an excellent place to start as well. |
| Additionally, there are a bunch of README files for specific |
| architectures and specific features. You might wish to look at some |
| of these other files as well. |
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| SUPPORTED ARCHITECTURES |
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| Please see the FAQ for this information. |
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| Please let us know if you compile it on other OS versions and it |
| works for you so we can add them to the above list. |
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| Porting: Please! read the PORTING file. |
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| Also note that many architecture have architecture specific README |
| files, so you should check to see if there is one appropriate to |
| your platform. |
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| AVAILABILITY |
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| Download: |
| - http://www.net-snmp.org/download/ |
| - ftp://ftp.net-snmp.org/pub/sourceforge/net-snmp/ |
| Web page: |
| - http://www.net-snmp.org/ |
| Project Wiki: |
| - http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/ |
| Sourceforge Project page: |
| - http://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp |
| Mirrors: |
| - US: ftp://ftp.freesnmp.com/mirrors/net-snmp/ |
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| The old ucd-snmp.ucdavis.edu web site and ftp server is now |
| offline and should not be accessed any longer. |
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| WEB PAGES |
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| http://www.net-snmp.org/ |
| http://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp |
| http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/ |
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| INSTALLATION |
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| See the INSTALL file distributed with this package. |
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| COPYING AND COPYRIGHTS |
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| See the COPYING file distributed with this package. |
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| FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS |
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| See the FAQ file distributed with this package. |
| This is also available on the project Wiki at |
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| http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ |
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| so that the wider Net-SNMP community can help maintain it! |
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| HELPING OUT |
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| This is a project worked on by people around the net. We'd love |
| your help, but please read the PORTING file first. Also, subscribe |
| to the net-snmp-coders list described below and mention what you're |
| going to work on to make sure no one else is already doing so! |
| You'll also need to keep up to date with the latest code snap shot, |
| which can be obtained from CVS using the information found at |
| http://www.net-snmp.org/cvs/. |
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| Contributions to the Net-SNMP source code in any form are greatly |
| appreciated. We expect the parties providing such contributions to |
| have the right to contribute them to the Net-SNMP project or that |
| the parties that do have the right have directed the person |
| submitting the contribution to do so. In addition, all contributors |
| need to be aware that if the contribution is accepted and |
| incorporated into the Net-SNMP project, it will be redistributed |
| under the terms of the license agreement used for the entire body of |
| work that comprises the Net-SNMP project (see the COPYING file for |
| details). If this license agreement ever changes the contribution |
| will continue to be released under any new licenses as well. Thank |
| you, in advance, for your gracious contributions. |
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| CODE UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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| See the NEWS file and the ChangeLog file for details on what has |
| changed between releases. |
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| We hate broadcasting announce messages to other mailing lists and |
| newsgroups, so there is a mailing list set up to handle release |
| announcements. Any time we put new software out for ftp, we'll mail |
| this fact to net-snmp-announce@lists.sourceforge.net. See the |
| MAILING LISTS section described below to sign up for these |
| announcements. |
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| We will post new announcements on a very infrequent basis to the |
| other channels (the other snmp mailing lists and newsgroups like |
| comp.protocols.snmp), but only for major code revisions and not for |
| bug-fix patches or small feature upgrades. |
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| MAILING LISTS |
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| The lists: |
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| A number of mailing lists have been created for support of the project: |
| The main ones are: |
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| net-snmp-announce@lists.sourceforge.net -- For official announcements |
| net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net -- For usage discussions |
| net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net -- For development discussions |
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| The -coders list is intended for discussion on development of code |
| that will be shipped as part of the package. The -users list is |
| for general discussion on configuring and using the package, |
| including issues with coding user-developed applications (clients, |
| managers, MIB modules, etc). |
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| Please do *NOT* send messages to both -users and -coders lists. |
| This is completely unnecessary, and simply serves to further |
| overload (and annoy) the core development team. If in doubt, |
| just use the -users list. |
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| The other lists of possible interest are: |
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| net-snmp-cvs@lists.sourceforge.net -- For cvs update announcements |
| net-snmp-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net -- For Bug database update announcements |
| net-snmp-patches@lists.sourceforge.net -- For Patch database update announcements |
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| Please do NOT post messages to these lists (or to the announce list above). |
| Bug reports and Patches should be submitted via the Source Forge tracker |
| system. See the main project web pages for details. |
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| To subscribe to any of these lists, please see: |
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| http://www.net-snmp.org/lists/ |
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| Archives: |
| The archives for these mailing lists can be found by following links at |
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| http://www.net-snmp.org/lists/ |
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| AGENT EXTENSIBILITY |
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| The agent that comes with this package is extensible through use of |
| shell scripts and other methods. See the configuration manual pages |
| (like snmpd.conf) and run the snmpconf perl script for further details. |
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| You can also extend the agent by writing C code directly. The agent |
| is extremely modular in nature and you need only create new files, |
| re-run configure and re-compile (or link against its libraries). No |
| modification of the distributed source files are necessary. See the |
| following files for details on how to go about this: |
| http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/toolkit/, |
| agent/mibgroup/examples/*.c |
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| Also, see the local/mib2c program and its README file for help in |
| turning a textual mib description into a C code template. |
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| We now support AgentX for subagent extensibility. The net-snmp |
| agent can run as both a master agent and a subagent. Additionally, |
| a toolkit is provided that enables users of it to easily embed a |
| agentx client into external applications. See the tutorial at |
| http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/toolkit/ for an example of how |
| go about doing this. |
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| CONFIGURATION |
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| See the man/snmp.conf.5 manual page. |
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| For the agent, additionally see the man/snmpd.conf.5 manual page. |
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| For the snmptrapd, see the man/snmptrapd.conf.5 manual page. |
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| You can also run the snmpconf perl script to help you create some of |
| these files. |
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| SUBMITTING BUG REPORTS |
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| Important: *Please* include what version of the net-snmp (or |
| ucd-snmp) package you are using and what architecture(s) you're |
| using, as well as detailed information about exactly what is wrong. |
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| To submit a bug report, please use the web interface at |
| http://www.net-snmp.org/bugs/. It is a full-fledged |
| bug-tracking system that will allow you to search for already |
| existing bug reports as well as track the status of your report as |
| it is processed by the core developers. |
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| If you intend to submit a patch as well, please read the PORTING |
| file before you do so and then submit it to |
| http://www.net-snmp.org/patches/. |
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| CLOSING |
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| We love patches. Send some to us! But before you do, please see |
| the 'PORTING' file for information on helping us out with the |
| process of integrating your patches (regardless of whether its a new |
| feature implementation or a new port). |
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| Also, We're interested if anyone actually uses/likes/hates/whatever |
| this package... Mail us a note and let us know what you think of it! |
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| Have fun and may it make your life easier, |
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| The net-snmp developers |
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| THANKS |
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| The following people have contributed various patches and |
| improvements. To them we owe our deepest thanks (and you do too!): |
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| Wes Hardaker <hardaker@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Steve Waldbusser <waldbusser@nextbeacon.com> |
| Dan A. Dickey <ddickey@transition.com> |
| Dave Shield <D.T.Shield@csc.liv.ac.uk> |
| Giovanni S. Marzot <gmarzot@nortelnetworks.com> |
| Niels Baggesen <nba@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch> |
| David T. Perkins <dperkins@dsperkins.com> |
| Mike Perik <mikep@crt.com> |
| Sanjai Narain <narain@thumper.bellcore.com> |
| francus@metsny.delphi.com |
| Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> |
| Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@ki.net> |
| Gary A. Hayward <gah@bellcore.com> |
| Jennifer Bray <jbray@origin-at.co.uk> |
| Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu> |
| Elwyn B Davies <edavies@origin-at.co.uk> |
| Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au> |
| David Paul Zimmerman <dpz@apple.com> |
| Alan Batie <batie@aahz.jf.intel.com> |
| Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net> |
| Ted Rule <Ted_Rule@FLEXTECH.CO.UK> |
| Craig Bevins <craigb@bitcom.net.au> |
| Arther Hyun <arthur@psi.com> |
| Cristian Estan <Cristian.Estan@net.utcluj.ro> |
| Eugene Polovnikov <eugen@rd.zgik.zaporizhzhe.ua> |
| Jakob Ellerstedt <jakob@dynarc.se> |
| Michael J. Slifcak <slif@bellsouth.net> |
| Jonas Olsson <jolsson@erv.ericsson.se> |
| James H. Young <sysjhy@gsu.edu> |
| Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> |
| Markku Laukkanen <marlaukk@stybba.ntc.nokia.com> |
| Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com> |
| David F. Newman <dnewman@epnet.com> |
| Nick Amato <naamato@merit.edu> |
| Mike Baer <baerm@calweb.com> |
| Patrick Lawrence <pjlawrence@ucdavis.edu> |
| Russ Mundy <mundy@tislabs.com> |
| Olafur Gudmundsson <ogud@tislabs.com> |
| David Reeder <dreeder@tislabs.com> |
| Ed Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com> |
| Bill Babson <wbabson@tislabs.com> |
| Chris Smith <csmith@platform.com> |
| Mike Michaud <mikemichaud@earthlink.net> |
| Andy Hood <ahood@westpac.com.au> |
| Robert Story <rstory@freesnmp.com> |
| Bert Driehuis <driehuis@playbeing.org> |
| Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> |
| Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> |
| Ragnar Kjørstad <ucd@ragnark.vestdata.no> |
| Jochen Kmietsch <jochen.kmietsch@tu-clausthal.de> |
| Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> |
| John L Villalovos <john.l.villalovos@intel.com> |
| Christoph Mammitzsch <Christoph.Mammitzsch@tu-clausthal.de> |
| Arne Oesleboe <Arne.Oesleboe@item.ntnu.no> |
| Jeff Cours <jeff@ultradns.com> |
| Karl Schilke <karl_schilke@eli.net> |
| John Naylon <jbpn@cambridgebroadband.com> |
| Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> |
| Martin Oldfield <m@mail.tc> |
| Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Mark Ferlatte <ferlatte@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Marus Meissner <marcusmeissner@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Stephan Wenzer <stephanwenzel@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Ron Mevissen <ron.mevissen@eed.ericsson.se> |
| T.J. Mather <tjmather@tjmather.com> |
| Craig Setera <seterajunk@charter.net> |
| Katsuhisa ABE <abekatsu@cysols.com> |
| Axel Kittenberger <Axel.Kittenberger@maxxio.com> |
| Johannes Schmidt-Fischer <jsf@InterFace-AG.com> |
| Jeffrey Watson <nostaw@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Bruce Shaw <Bruce.Shaw@gov.ab.ca> |
| Stefan Radman <sradman@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Stephen J. Friedl <sjfriedl@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Alex Burger <alex_b@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Christophe Varoqui <ext.devoteam.varoqui@sncf.fr> |
| Srikanth Pindiproli <sripindip@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Kevin Graham <kevgraham7@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Xiaofeng Ling <xfling@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Brandon Knitter <knitterb@bl...> |
| Andrew Findlay <andrew.findlay@skills-1st.co.uk> |
| Ron Tabor <rtabor@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Peter Warasin <drg-r3@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Bob Rowlands <robert.rowlands@sun.com> |
| Peter Hicks <Peter.Hicks@POGGS.CO.UK> |
| Andy Smith <wasmith32@earthlink.net> |
| Nick Barkas <nbarkas@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Noah Friedman <friedman@prep.ai.mit.edu> |
| Geert De Peuter <geert@depeuter.org> |
| Magnus Fromreide <magfr@lysator.liu.se> |
| Marcus Meissner <marcusmeissner@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Dai.H. <dg-f@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Thomas Anders <tanders@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Vladislav Bogdanov <slava_reg@nsys.by> |
| Peter Martin <pnmartin@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Thomas Lackey <telackey@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Joe Buehler <jbuehler@spirentcom.com> |
| Anders Persson <apersson@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Rojer <rojer@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> |
| |
| We've probably forgotten people on this list. Let us know if you've |
| contributed code and we've left you out. |
