Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Conﬁguring gated

Conﬁguring the OSPF Protocol

Accessing the OSPF MIB

HP’s gated also provides ospfagt, an OSPF Simple Management

Network Protocol (SNMP) subagent that supports the OSPF MIB

(Management Information Base) (see RFC 1253). The ospfagt subagent

works with the HP SNMP Agent, snmpdm. If you are using an SNMP

manager utility to manage your network, such as HP’s OpenView

Network Node Manager, you may also want to use HP’s OSPF SNMP

subagent.

To start ospfagt automatically at system bootup, set the environment

variable OSPFMIB to 1 in the ﬁle /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons.

To manually start ospfagt , enter:

/usr/sbin/ospfagt

Note that gated must be running before ospfagt can be started. Both

gated and ospfagt must be running in order to retrieve OSPF MIB

objects.

To load the OSPF MIB, select “Load/Unload SNMP:MIBS ...” from the

Options Menu of OpenView.