How to share port 161....?

Richard Brooks (rbrooks@ti.com)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 05:58:26 +0000

Hi all,
We are developing a custom SNMP agent using Scotty and have a
problem which perhaps one or more of you has solved already, or may
have ideas about solving.

Our agent monitors a single application on a machine and we'd like
to get information from it to an SNMP management station which is
monitoring a great many machines. The management station uses the
standard SNMP port (161) to talk to all its agents and this port is
configurable only on a global basis--we can't set it to just talk to
our Scotty agent on, say, port 171 without it wanting to talk to all
its agents on 171.

Question is: how do we integrate our Scotty agent with the
apparently standard snmpd which is already on the machine (and in
control of the standard SNMP ports on that machine) where our agent
will be running?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Richard Brooks
rbrooks@ti.com