Starting and stopping the agents of SNMP-AGENT

It is not recommended to start agents manually. The best practice is to use rc scripts to perform start/stop of the SNMP products.

The SNMP-AGENTS V1.1 delivery unit comprises the following agents:

• appMonAgent - Application Monitor Agent for monitoring subsystems, BCAM and user applications as well as job variables and logging files

• consoleAgent - Console Monitor Agent for monitoring the console

• hostAgent - Host Resources Agent to get information about the system, devices, file systems, and the installed software.

• hsmsAgent - HSMS Agent for monitoring the storage management system HSMS

• openFTAgent - openFT Agent for monitoring the openFT file transfers

• openSM2Agent - openSM2 Agent for monitoring the performance

• openUTMAgent - openUTM Agent for monitoring UTM applications

• spoolAgent - Spool Agent for monitoring SPOOL and RSO devices

• storageAgent - Storage Agent for monitoring disks and pubsets

• bcamAgent - agent for monitoring and managing openNet Server parameters
• ftpAgent - agent for monitoring and managing FTP servers
• sesAgent - agent for monitoring SESAM/SQL databases

The agents can be started/stopped using rc scripts, see section “rc scripts”. This is the recommended practice.

In addition, it is possible to start the agents individually in POSIX using its program name, see also section “Agents-specific options for starting agents manually”.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for starting the agents manually are:

• an operational LAN connection between BS2000 system and management platform

• a started POSIX subsystem

• the SNMPAGT subsystem should be installed and running

• the SNMP daemon snmpd is running.

The SYSROOT privilege is required to start the agents: