I am new to SNMP. As far as I know snmpd is a Linux daemon for SNMP which acts as SNMP agent. We can install it from the package snmpd. Now net-snmp also provides a SNMP agent.
Does net-snmp provide snmpd daemon as its agent, if so then what is the use in installing net-snmp if one already has installed snmpd (provided one needs the SNMP agent only)?
The net-snmp suite comes in 3 Linux packages.
net-snmp
package is the one which has thesnmpd
component mentioned in question.The 3 Linux packages are:
See http://www.net-snmp.org/ for full details.
More detailed descriptions for each (package descriptions & file contents) follows:
net-snmp
Files involved:
net-snmp-utils
Files involved:
net-snmp-libs
Files involved: