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17.Dd $Mdocdate: December 5 2007 $
18.Dt SNMPD 8
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm snmpd
22.Nd Simple Network Management Protocol Daemon
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Nm snmpd
25.Op Fl dv
26.Oo Xo
27.Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value Oc
28.Xc
29.Op Fl f Ar file
30.Sh DESCRIPTION
31.Nm
32is a daemon which implement the SNMP protocol.
33.Pp
34The options are as follows:
35.Bl -tag -width Ds
36.It Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value
37Define
38.Ar macro
39to be set to
40.Ar value
41on the command line.
42Overrides the definition of
43.Ar macro
44in the configuration file.
45.It Fl d
46Do not daemonize and log to
47.Em stderr .
48.It Fl f Ar file
49Use
50.Ar file
51as the configuration file, instead of the default
52.Pa /etc/snmpd.conf .
53.It Fl v
54Produce more verbose output.
55.El
56.Sh FILES
57.Bl -tag -width "/etc/snmpd.confXXX" -compact
58.It Pa /etc/snmpd.conf
59default
60.Nm
61configuration file
62.El
63.Sh SEE ALSO
64.Xr snmpd.conf 5 ,
65.Rs
66.%R RFC 1157
67.%T A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
68.%D May 1990
69.Re
70.Rs
71.%R http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/snmpv3/
72.%T SNMP Version 3 (SNMPv3)
73.%D March 2002
74.Re
75.Rs
76.%R RFC 3410
77.%T Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet Standard Management Framework
78.%D December 2002
79.Re
80.Sh HISTORY
81The
82.Nm
83file format first appeared in
84.Ox 4.3 .
85.Sh AUTHORS
86The
87.Nm
88program was written by
89.An Reyk Floeter Aq reyk@vantronix.net .
90.Sh CAVEATS
91The
92.Nm
93does not fully work yet.
94