A.3.2 Messaging Server Subagent Configuration

For basic operation of Messaging Server's SNMP subagent, you need only enable it and issue a one time manual start command. Henceforth, whenever Messaging Server is started or stopped, the subagent will likewise be started or stopped. The necessary commands to effect this configuration on both Solaris and Linux are as follows:

% configutil -o local.snmp.enable -v 1
% start-msg snmp

Once running, you can test the subagent from the command line with the snmpwalk command. See the screen shots below an example appropriate to Solaris and Linux. Note that the files rfc2248.txt and rfc2249.txt are copies of the Network Services and MTA MIBs. On Solaris systems, these files may also be found in the /etc/sma/snmp/mibs/ directory under the names NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB.txt and MTA-MIB.txt. It is not necessary provide these files to the snmpwalk tool; however, doing so permits snmpwalk to print names for each of the MIB variables rather than their numeric object identifiers (OIDs).

Basic testing on Solaris:

% D=/opt/SUNWmsgsr/examples/mibs /usr/sfw/bin/snmpwalk -v 1 -c public \
    -m +$D/rfc2248.txt:$D/rfc2249.txt 127.0.0.1 mib-2.27

NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB::applName.1 = STRING: /opt/SUNWmsgsr MTA on mail.siroe.com
...
% D=/opt/SUNWmsgsr/examples/mibs /usr/sfw/bin/snmpwalk -v 1 -c public \
     -m +$D/rfc2248.txt:$D/rfc2249.txt 127.0.0.1 mib-2.28

MTA-MIB::mtaReceivedMessages.1 = Counter32: 1452
MTA-MIB::mtaStoredMessages.1 = Gauge32: 21
...

Basic testing on Linux:

% export D=/opt/sun/messaging/examples/mibs
% /usr/bin/snmpwalk -v 1 -c public \
     -m +$D/rfc2248.txt:$D/rfc2249.txt 127.0.0.1 mib-2.27
NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB::applName.1 = STRING: /opt/sun/messaging MTA on mail.siroe.com
...
% /usr/bin/snmpwalk -v 1 -c public \
     -m +$D/rfc2248.txt:$D/rfc2249.txt 127.0.0.1 mib-2.28
MTA-MIB::mtaReceivedMessages.1 = Counter32: 21278
MTA-MIB::mtaStoredMessages.1 = Gauge32: 7
...