SNMP trap daemon failed to start on port 162: Permission denied

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nkankipati asked Jan 12, '10 sai_kiran edited Mar 5, '13

SNMP trap daemon failed to start on port 162: Permission denied

Can someone help me why i am getting this message .

iTest error message snmp

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Answer 1 · 2013-03-05T11:50:14Z

sai_kiran answered Mar 5, '13 sai_kiran edited Mar 5, '13

Hi Rao, This error "**SNMP trap daemon failed to start on port 162: Permission denied**" is seen in Linux, when iTest is running with non-root user privileges. Try to start iTest as root user from terminal, please follow the following steps to start iTest as root user. 1. Open Terminal. 2. Give this command "cd /home/"path"/Spirent_Communications/iTest_4.2/" the "path" refers to the path of iTest installation folfer. 3. Now start iTest using this command "sudo ./iTest". Now try to start the SNMP session with port:162, we can observe "**SNMP trap daemon successfully started (162)**" in SNMP console. Its recommended to start iTest with root user privileges, when using SNMP session in Linux. Thanks, Sai.

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Answer 2 · 2010-01-12T01:13:01Z

PatrickH answered Jan 12, '10 PatrickH posted Jan 12, '10

If you are running on a Linux or Solaris system, then iTest can only open ports below 1024 if you are logged in as root. You may wish to configure the port that the SNMP trap daemon listens on in preferences. But then you will also have to make sure that your devices are sending traps to this new port.

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KumarS commented · Jan 12, 2010 at 05:19 AM

Also, if you are not using SNMP traps, you can safely ignore this error message.

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