HP Insight Management Agents 8.40 Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux HOW TO Whitepaper

Managing ProLiant Servers with Linux – HOWTO v8.40

Agent is not allowed to send traps.

For example, to set the poll interval to 30 seconds and prevent traps, change PFLAGS= to PFLAGS="- p30 -t

NOT_OK" in the /opt/hp/hp-snmp-agents/nic/etc/cmanicd script.

Traps are configured using the standard SNMP configuration file (snmpd.conf). See the snmpd.conf manual

page for the most current configuration information. When the snmpd.conf or snmpd.local.conf

configuration files are changed or when the SNMPCONFPATH environment variable is changed, the

cmanic daemon must be restarted.

If your operating system has an active firewall configuration, external SNMP requests might be rejected by

the system, which prevents remote management operation. Your system must be configured to allow udp

connections on port 161 from any hosts that need to be able to send SNMP requests. There are significant

security implications to configuring a firewall. Consider the iptables, ipchains, iptables-save, and iptables-

restore man pages and the documentation for any firewall configuration application in use as mandatory

reading before making any change to the firewall configuration.

The Rack Infrastructure Interface Service is contained in an executable called cpqriisd which resides in the

/sbin directory. It can be invoked by using the commands in Table 13.

Table 13: Command options for the Rack Infrastructure Information Service Daemon

Option Description

-F This option will "daemonize" the process and start the daemon in a production level environment.

Usage is recommended. An easier way to accomplish this task is to execute the hp-snmp-agents run-

level script.

-D This option starts the service in a debug environment. stdin and stdout go to the console; typing "e"

will stop the daemon. Alerts are logged in to the same text console.

-V This option enables the verbosity of the output. The default behavior is to output to both

/var/log/messages and tty1 - tty10.

-? This option reports the version of the service and informs the user of other available options.