Definitions

The SNMP agent, subagents and clients must be configured to TCP/IP before use. If the NetView® SNMP client is used, NetView configuration is also required.

Though the SNMP Agent can be started with no configuration files, to implement settings or security other than the defaults, several configuration data sets are required. Most of the configuration data can be configured in several places. Details on the syntax of the statements in the files and the search orders for the files are in z/OS Communications Server: IP Configuration Reference. In the text that follows, uppercase file names (such as OSNMP.CONF) indicate the generic name for the file, which can be any of the places in the search order for the file.

TCP/IP configuration files for SNMP are summarized below. For use of the NetView SNMP command, changes are required for the NetView start procedure and the DSIDMN and DSICMD NCCFLST members of the NetView DSIPARM data set. For additional information, see z/OS Communications Server: IP Configuration Guide.