How to restart snmpd service on AIX

This is how you would restart the snmpd service on AIX.

oslevel is used to return the current OS level. stopsrc -s [service] to stop and startsrc -s [service] to start a service.

[root@kakuna]:/# oslevel
4.3.3.0
[root@kakuna]:/# stopsrc -s snmpd
0513-044 The snmpd Subsystem was requested to stop.
[root@kakuna]:/# stopsrc -s snmpd
0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, snmpd, is currently inoperative.
[root@kakuna]:/# startsrc -s snmpd
0513-059 The snmpd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 8004.
[root@kakuna]:/#

3 Responses to “How to restart snmpd service on AIX”

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1. Muhammad Ubaidullah Asim says:

   April 28, 2008 at 3:57 pm

   Dear
   I want to configure snmp service on AIX 5.3. Please help me in this regards.

   Thanks.

   Reply
2. Muhammad Ubaidullah Asim says:

   April 28, 2008 at 4:02 pm

   Dear
   I want to configure snmp service on AIX 5.3 on p 570 series. Please help me in what steps are regrds to configure this service in AIX 5.3

   Thanks

   Reply
3. Sathesh Kumar says:

   December 2, 2008 at 7:20 pm

   Hi Team,

   This is I am informing to you with happy…!

   Using this cmd I could able resolve the snmpd related issue.

   Thanks & Regards,

   Sathesh
   Unix TS.

   Reply