Including UCD-SNMP support in Cyrus IMAPD

[Igor Brezac]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 marc.bigler at day.com wrote:

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> I will have a try at it this week-end... Now hopefully the last question
> about this topic, how does actually the SNMP daemon know about Cyrus ?? I
> am wondering how that can work by only specifying "master agentx", is that
> really all ? I will be using Cyrus graphtools from the contrib dir...
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By default snmpd and ucd libs will use the same unix domain socket to
communicate.  Things are a bit more complicated if you use libwrap and/or
you want to change the socket location or use ip:port for ipc.

-Igor

> Regards
> Marc
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>                     Igor Brezac                       To:     info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>                     <igor at ipass.net>                  cc:
>                     Sent by:                          Subject:     Re: Including UCD-SNMP support in Cyrus IMAPD
>                     owner-info-cyrus at lists.andr
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> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 marc.bigler at day.com wrote:
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> > Thanks, it looks like that worked, I now compiled Cyrus IMAP with the
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> > LIBS="-Wl,-zignore"
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> > and I've checked with ldd to see if the kstat and kvm library where
> display
> > and they are not anymore so it looks fine. Now an important question, how
> > can I check that UCD-SNMP is really working with my Cyrus IMAP ?
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> Add 'master agentx' to snmpd.conf.  Make sure to start cyrus after your
> start snmpd.  To see counters
> 'snmpwalk <snmp_host> <comminity_str> .1.3.6.1.4.1.3.6.1'
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> > Regards
> > Marc
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> >                     Igor Brezac                       To:
> marc.bigler at day.com
> >                     <igor at ipass.net>                  cc:
> info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> >                     Sent by:                          Subject:     Re:
> Including UCD-SNMP support in Cyrus IMAPD
> >                     owner-info-cyrus at lists.andr
> >                     ew.cmu.edu
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> >                     01/08/03 10:51 PM
> >                     Please respond to
> >                     info-cyrus
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> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 marc.bigler at day.com wrote:
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> > > >I must have mis-understood you.  You need to use this option to
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> > > >cyrus-imapd.  -Wl,-zignore will ignore libraries not referenced by the
> > > >link process.
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> > > >If you want to fix UCD-SNMP libs, you need to pass -Wl,-zdefs to
> LDFLAGS
> > > >and then add neccessary libs to the link process until everything
> > compiles
> > > >fine.  Actually, you may need to use -zdefs because libtool on solaris
> > > >uses 'ld' for link-edit.  This is a libtool bug, but this is a subject
> > for
> > > >a different forum.
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> > > Oh ok this is for Cyrus IMAP, then I misunderstood you... So now from
> the
> > > two solutions you gave what do you think is the best to do:
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> > You do not have to do either.  What you have works.  ;)  You asked me if
> > cyrus binaries can be compiled without all these unneccessary libraries?
> > Option 1) will do this.
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> > 1) - use -Wl,-zignore to compile Cyrus IMAP or
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> > I would not go through the effort of fixing UCD libs unless you are
> > familiar with the link-edit process.  Do not bother with 2).
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> > 2) - use -Wl,-zdefs to compile UCD SNMP
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> > Hope this helps.
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> > -Igor
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> Igor
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Igor