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Coexistence with the AIX SNMP Agent

AIX Release 4.1 and later systems ship with a MIB-II SNMP agent that also supports SMUX. You can run the SystemEDGE agent in addition to or in place of the AIX agent.

Take either of the following coexistence approaches:

• Run the SystemEDGE agent and AIX agents together. To do so, make sure that the SystemEDGE agent is invoked with the -p 1691 option in the AIX TCP/IP startup script, /etc/rc.tcpip.
• Run the SystemEDGE agent instead of the AIX agent. To do so, comment out the AIX agent's invocation in /etc/rc.tcpip by adding a pound sign (#) at the beginning of the following lines:

  # Start up the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) daemon
  # start /usr/sbin/snmpd "$src_running"
  

  Replacing the native agent during installation also implements this approach.