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V-215354

CAT II (Medium)

If SNMP is not required on AIX, the snmpd service must be disabled.

Rule ID

SV-215354r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The snmpd daemon is used by many 3rd party applications to monitor the health of the system. This allows remote monitoring of network and server configuration. To prevent remote attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

Check Content

Verify there is no "snmpd" service running on the AIX by doing the following:

From the command prompt, execute the following command: 

# grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/snmpd" /etc/rc.tcpip

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "snmpd" entry by running command: 
# chrctcp -d snmpd