The default options for snmpd daemon reside in /etc/sysconfig/snmpd file for RHEL 6. You can see the default options by running following command:
# grep OPTIONS /etc/init.d/snmpd
Modifying log levels for SNMP
1. In RHEL6, default configuration in /etc/sysconfig/snmpd for logging level of SNMP is:
# snmpd command line options # OPTIONS="-LS0-6d -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid"
2. The mechanism and destination to use for logging of warning and error messages can be controlled by passing various parameters to the -L flag.
The various log levels available are :
| 0 or ! | for LOG_EMERG |
| 1 or a | for LOG_ALERT |
| 2 or c | for LOG_CRIT |
| 3 or e | for LOG_ERR |
| 4 or w | for LOG_WARNING |
| 5 or n | for LOG_NOTICE |
| 6 or i | for LOG_INFO |
| 7 or d | for LOG_DEBUG |
3. To reduce log level, “-LS0-6d” can be changed to “-LS0-5d” as shown below.
# snmpd command line options # OPTIONS="-LS0-5d -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid"
4. To take effect, remove “#” and restart snmpd service.
# service snmpd restart