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.Dd $Mdocdate$
.Dt SYSLOGD.AGENTX 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm syslogd.agentx
.Nd Export syslog messages through snmp
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm syslogd.agentx
.Op Fl v
.Op Fl c Ar context
.Op Fl d Ar dbpath
.Op Fl s Ar master
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
should be called through the
.Xr syslog.conf 5
double pipe agentx
.Pq ||
action.
Messages can be found under the syslogMsgMib subtree
.Pq mib-2.192 .
Available options are:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl c Ar context
Specify an SNMPv3 context, can usually be omitted.
.It Fl d Ar dbpath
.Ar dbpath
specifies the file which
.Nm
uses for persistent settings and messages.
At startup this file is emptied and is filled upon exit.
If omitted it will default to
.Pa /var/db/syslogd/agentx .
.It Fl s Ar master
.Ar master
specifies the path to the agentx master.
It must be accessible by the _syslogd user or its groups.
If omitted it will default to
.Pa /var/agentx/master .
.It Fl v
Verbose mode.
Multiple
.Fl v
options increase verbosity.
.Nm
will log to the daemon facility.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Nm
can be enabled for all warning messages in
.Xr syslog.conf 5
by adding the following line:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
daemon.*				||/usr/libexec/syslogd.agentx
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr syslog.conf 5 ,
.\".Xr snmpd 8 ,
.Xr syslogd 8
.Sh STANDARDS
.Rs
.%A J. Schoenwaelder
.%Q Jacobs University Bremen
.%A A. Clemm
.%Q Cisco Systems
.%A A. Karmakar
.%Q Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd
.%D October 2009
.%R RFC 5676
.%T Definitions of Managed Objects for Mapping SYSLOG Messages to Simple \
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Notifications
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Ox 7.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility was written by:
.Pp
.An Martijn van Duren Aq Mt martijn@openbsd.org
.Sh CAVEATS
If
.Fl v
is specified more then once and the daemon facility is being exported it will
cause an infinite loop while walking the subtree.
.Pp
Only a single agentx subprocess can run at a time.