A.2 Configuring SNMP Support for Messaging Server on Solaris 9

Although the overhead imposed by SNMP monitoring is very small, the Messaging Server nonetheless ships with SNMP support disabled. To enable the SNMP support, run the following commands:

# su user-id-for-ims
# configutil -o local.snmp.enable -v 1
# start-msg snmp

Once you have enabled SNMP, the start-msg command, without any parameters specified, will automatically start the SNMP subagent process along with the other Messaging Server processes.

Note that the Solaris native SNMP master agent must be running in order for the Messaging Server SNMP subagent to operate. The Solaris native SNMP master agent is the snmpdx daemon which is normally started as part of the Solaris boot procedure.

The SNMP subagent will automatically select a UDP port on which to listen. Should you require, you can assign a fixed UDP port to the subagent with the following command:

# configutil -o local.snmp.port -v port-number

You may later undo this setting by specifying a value of zero for the port number. A value of zero, the default setting, tells Messaging Server to allow the subagent to automatically select any available UDP port.

Two SNMP subagent configuration files are placed in the /etc/snmp/conf directory: ims.acl which contains SNMP access control information, and ims.reg which contains SNMP MIB OID registration information.

Normally, there should be no reason to edit either of these files. The MIBs served out by Messaging Server are read-only and there’s no need to specify a port number in the ims.reg file. If you do specify a port number, then it will be honored unless you also set a port number with the configutil utility. In that case, the port number set with configutil is the port number which will be used by the subagent. If you do edit the files, then you will need to stop and restart the SNMP subagent in order for your changes to take effect:

# stop-msg snmp
# start-msg snmp

Any query over SNMP made on Solaris 10 OS while SNMP support is enabled in Messaging Server, must connect to default port 16161. For example, if the open source SNMP tool snmpwalk is used to query network/mail statistics for Messaging Server, use the option -p 16161.