The SNMP Agent supports the ASCII character set and UTF-8 encoding
for the values specified for the name fields on the configuration
statements. Use UTF-8 values to define EBCDIC name field values to
the agent. To specify a UTF-8 value for a name field, specify the
value in the following format:
The first character must be a cent sign (¢)
The remaining characters are the octet string representing the
name value
For example, to define the EBCDIC value, TEST, in a name field, specify the name value as follows:
¢e3c5e2e3
If an error is detected in processing an entry and no appropriate
default value can be assumed, the entry is discarded and an error
message is written to the syslog daemon.
An entry must be contained on one line.
Keywords in the SNMPD.CONF file are accepted in any case (that
is, they are not case sensitive.)
Values in the SNMPD.CONF file are case sensitive. For example,
a userName of user1 is not equivalent to a userName of USER1.
All of these entry definitions require that all fields be specified,
either with a specific value or with a dash (-). A dash indicates
that the appropriate default value should be applied.
If an error is detected in processing an entry and no appropriate
default value can be assumed, the entry is discarded and an error
message is generated.
Statements in the SNMPD.CONF file are not order dependent. However,
if more than one DEFAULT_SECURITY statement is found, the last one
in the file is the one that is used.
If there are no valid entries in the SNMPD.CONF file (but the
file exists) and no -c parameter specified at agent invocation, no
requests are accepted.
Comments can be entered in the SNMPD.CONF file. They must must
begin with an asterisk (*) or a # character in column 1.
The SNMP agent uses a ¢ character to precede a hex string that
represents a value for an SnmpAdminString syntax object for which
the value cannot be printed. Use of the ¢ is reserved for this purpose.
Do not change the contents of the entries in the configuration file
that have a ¢ character preceding them.
You cannot specify scope information about any values in the SNMPD.CONF
file that represent IP addresses or host names.