On 2008-07-01, (private) HKS <hks.private@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Running net-snmp under the agentuser and agentgroup of _snmpd will
> work

Those are intended for the in-tree /usr/sbin/snmpd, not for Net-SNMP.
Depends what you're monitoring, but base snmpd is sufficient for many
people, and IME much more reliable.

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> but many of your MIBs will return null data (most notably, MIB-2
> Interfaces) because the agent reads /dev/mem for that data.

Most of these can and should be rewritten to use the sysctl interfaces
added in 4.3, this may also fix the problems running Net-SNMP on -current
on i386 and amd64 (but for some unknown reason, not sparc64 for once).