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.Dd $Mdocdate: September 26 2012 $
.Dt SNMPD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm snmpd
.Nd Simple Network Management Protocol daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm snmpd
.Op Fl dNnv
.Op Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value
.Op Fl f Ar file
.Op Fl r Ar path
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a daemon which implements the SNMP protocol.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value
Define
.Ar macro
to be set to
.Ar value
on the command line.
Overrides the definition of
.Ar macro
in the configuration file.
.It Fl d
Do not daemonize and log to
.Em stderr .
.It Fl f Ar file
Use
.Ar file
as the configuration file, instead of the default
.Pa /etc/snmpd.conf .
.It Fl N
Show numeric OID values instead of their symbolic names.
.It Fl n
Configtest mode.
Only check the configuration file for validity.
.It Fl r Ar path
Open a second, restricted, control socket that
.Xr snmpctl 8
can use.
Only
.Em trap
requests are allowed on this socket.
.It Fl v
Produce more verbose output.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/usr/share/snmp/mibs/XXXX" -compact
.It Pa /etc/snmpd.conf
default
.Nm
configuration file
.It Pa /var/run/snmpd.sock
default
.Nm
control socket
.It Pa /usr/share/snmp/mibs/*
.Nm
Management Information Base definitions
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr snmpd.conf 5 ,
.Xr snmpctl 8
.Sh STANDARDS
.Rs
.%A U. Blumenthal
.%A B. Wijnen
.%D December 2002
.%R RFC 3414
.%T User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)
.Re
.Pp
.Rs
.%A R. Presuhn
.%D December 2002
.%R RFC 3416
.%T Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
.Re
.Pp
.Rs
.%A R. Presuhn
.%D December 2002
.%R RFC 3417
.%T Transport Mappings for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
.Re
.Pp
.Rs
.%A R. Presuhn
.%D December 2002
.%R RFC 3418
.%T Management Information Base (MIB) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
.Re
.Pp
.Rs
.%A U. Blumenthal
.%D June 2004
.%R RFC 3826
.%T The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cipher Algorithm in the SNMP User-based Security Model
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
program first appeared in
.Ox 4.3 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
program was written by
.An Reyk Floeter Aq reyk@openbsd.org .
.Sh CAVEATS
.Nm
does not fully work yet.