In general, to use SNMP you must have a master agent and at least one subagent installed and running on a your system. You need to install the master agent before you can enable a subagent.
The procedures for setting up SNMP are different depending upon your system. Table 8.1 provides an overview of procedures you will follow for different situations. The actual procedures are described in detail later in the chapter.
Before you begin, you should verify two things:
Is your system already running an SNMP agent (an agent native to your operating system)?
If so, does your native SNMP agent support SMUX communication? (If you are using the AIX platform, your system supports SMUX.)
See your system documentation for information on how to verify this information.
After changing SNMP settings in the Administration Server, installing a new server, or deleting an existing server, you must perform the following steps:
(Windows) Restart the Windows SNMP service or reboot the machine.
(UNIX) Restart the SNMP master agent using the Administration Server.