SNMP-related Problems

This section provides error messages related to the SNMP management connector.

CybSnmpPluginDriver terminated: java.net.BindException: Permission denied

Reason:

The SNMP communication port specified by the snmp.trap.listener.port agent parameter is already in use. The agent uses ports below 1024. On UNIX, start the agent as root.

Action:

Ensure that the value specified for the SNMP communication port (snmp.trap.listener.port) is not in use by another application. The default port number is 162.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Passed ip address is invalid

Reason:

SNMP v1 does not support IPv6.

Action:

To ensure that the agent uses IPv4, add the following parameters to the agentparm.txt file:

java.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
java.net.preferIPv6Stack=false