#4716 moncfg snmpmon configures the wrong file in RHEL7.1

[ralph bellofatto]

we attempted to configure and start snmpmon on RHEL7.1 running on a PPC64 architecture machine.

This resulted in seeing the following message in /var/log/messages when an snmp trap was received.

Jun 25 11:49:49 dccxcat snmptrapd[78729]: No access configuration - dropping trap.

the snmptrapd daemon that comes with the RHEL7.1 distro comes from the net-snmp-5.7.2-20.el7.ppc64 package. and according to its documentation it reads its configuration from /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf.

after running monadd snmpmon; moncfg snmpmon. The contents of the /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf file is unchanged.

[root@dccxcat mibs]# cat /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf
# Example configuration file for snmptrapd
#
# No traps are handled by default, you must edit this file!
#
# authCommunity   log,execute,net public
# traphandle SNMPv2-MIB::coldStart    /usr/bin/bin/my_great_script cold

Looking at the code for the xcat plugin snmpmon.pm we see the following code:

my $confdir;
if(xCAT::Utils->isAIX()){
  $::snmpconfdir = "/opt/freeware/etc";
} else {
  $::snmpconfdir = "/usr/share/snmp";
}

And we do see that a file /usr/share/snmp/snmptrapd.conf has been created. However, for this distribution, this appears to be in the wrong place.

We are currently running the following version of xcat:

[root@dccxcat mibs]# lsxcatd  -v
Version 2.10 (git commit 22b5c8fd793ca32bb75f76899e1d27bd203a53c6, built Wed May 27 11:50:52 EDT 2015)

[Ling]

Checked in new revision 7423026878cc6cfc6bfb71810dbaa35d3129a535 to look for new config file location for snmpmon.

if(xCAT::Utils->isAIX()){
$::snmpconfdir = "/opt/freeware/etc";
} else {
if (-f "/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf") {
$::snmpconfdir = "/etc/snmp";
} else {
$::snmpconfdir = "/usr/share/snmp";
}
}

[Ling]

if(xCAT::Utils->isAIX()){
  $::snmpconfdir = "/opt/freeware/etc";
} else {
    if (-f "/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf") {
        $::snmpconfdir = "/etc/snmp";
    } else {
        $::snmpconfdir = "/usr/share/snmp";
    }
}

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