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So I had some trouble gettin snmp working. I edited /etc/snmp/conf/snmpd.conf with the proper trap and community for my enviroment.  Every time I tried to start snmp I would get erros.

checking /var/adm/messages

Nov  6 10:09:29 pressman2 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error] can’t read the directory snmpd.conf [errno: Not a directory(20)]

me trying to start snmp

bash-3.00# svcadm enable svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default

bash-3.00# svcs|grep snmp
offline        10:03:20 svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default

On the second line you can see that I check and it was not started or offline.  So then it was time to consult with svcs -x.  That stated that I was missing a prerequisite process that snmp relied on.

bash-3.00# svcs -x
svc:/application/management/seaport:default (net-snmp SNMP daemon)
State: disabled since Wed Oct 28 16:25:27 2009
Reason: Disabled by an administrator.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05
See: snmpd(1M)
Impact: 1 dependent service is not running.  (Use -v for list.)

bash-3.00# svcs |grep snmp
online         11:25:54 svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default

Now everything works like it should.

I was trying to ssh from one Sun Soalris server to another.

# ssh  remoteserver
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
# ssh -v remoteserver
Sun_SSH_1.1.1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0×0090704f
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted.
debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to mimi [10.20.55.222] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa type -1
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
debug1: Calling cleanup 0×34ae8(0×0)
#

Err it would not let me connect.  As you can see I first tried to ssh, then ssh in verbose mode.  As you can see the output did not really give anything that useful.

I logged into the remote server and all it would tell me is

Jul  7 11:37:53 remoteserver sshd[21761]: refused connect from clientserver

I wold have to be connected to the serial console to see this message, I was not able to see the message anywhere else.  Not in /var/adm/messages or /var/log/syslog

So what I ended up doing was adding this line to /etc/hosts.allow

p_ctminetd,sshd,bpcd,vnetd,vopied,bpjava-msvc: 10.20.55. : allow

That line allowed any host in the 10.20.55.* subnet to connect to the server now, and ssh was allowed to connect.

In order to start up snmp on solaris then you need to configure

/etc/snmp/conf/snmpd.conf

and start it up using smf

svcadm enable /application/management/sma