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I am trying to determine why a number of sites are recommending the mteTrigger,mteTriggerConf optons below be placed as options in SNMPDOPTS for snmpd's /etc/default/snmpd (Ubuntu).

SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -g snmp -I -smux,mteTrigger,mteTriggerConf -p /var/run/snmpd.pid'

What is the benefit of adding these options as apposed to leaving them out?

Solomon Gifford
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Although I'm not entirely sure if Stack Overflow is the best place for this question, I'll try to answer it.

First note that the part -I -smux,mteTrigger,mteTriggerConf is one option. The -I option specifies which modules should (or should not) be initialized when the agent starts up. The '-' before the second part means that the specified modules should not be started.

My guess is that smux is disabled because it has been deprecated by the AgentX protocol (source), and the mteTrigger and mteTriggerConf modules because they don't work without non-free MIBs (source).

wovano
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