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QRadar: Job for snmpd.service failed because the control process exited

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Question

Is the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) daemon state supposed to be failed?
The following command displays the SNMP daemon status as failed: 
systemctl status snmpd

snmpd.service - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Daemon.
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/snmpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/snmpd.service.d
           └─qradar.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-12-17 15:13:52 EST; 34min ago
<Date and Time> <IP>  systemd[1]: Starting Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Daemon....
<Date and Time> <IP>  snmpd_precheck.sh[2836]: Failed to start, LINUX_AGENT_SNMP_ENABLED is disabled in nva.conf.
<Date and Time> <IP>  snmpd_precheck.sh[2836]: To enable it, set LINUX_AGENT_SNMP_ENABLED=yes
<Date and Time> <IP>  systemd[1]: snmpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
<Date and Time> <IP>  systemd[1]: Failed to start Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Daemon..
<Date and Time> <IP>  systemd[1]: Unit snmpd.service entered failed state.
<Date and Time> <IP>  systemd[1]: snmpd.service failed.
In /var/log/qradar.log, you see errors such as: 
ErrorStream snmpd: Job for snmpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code

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Modified date:
27 December 2020

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