snmp - will not start on boot

SUSE Product Topics SLES Configure-Administer
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Not sure what’s wrong but I have installed SLES 12 SP1 on a Physical DL380p Gen8 and for some reason the snmp service will not start on boot. It starts fine manually.

chkconfig --list shows it “ON” for the run levels 2,3, &5 - is there a known issue with this service ?

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SLES 12 does not run “runlevels” the same way that SLES 11 did, so it may
be useful to check with the native systemd commands:

systemctl is-enabled snmpd  #or whatever the service name

Another nice thing added with systemd is that you may be able to get
better status information from startup via systemct;

systemctl status snmpd

Not having a SLES 12 system to check, it’s possible that snmpd has not yet
been ported to use a unit file (vs. a legacy init script) in which case
you will probably get a little less great information than from a native
systemd-enabled service, but here’s hoping that the ‘status’ command above
helps.

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Good luck.

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I did check for the service file - doesn’t exist - it is still a init.d script.

I did run the systemctl enable smnpd and it just called the chkconfig routine- chkconfig snmpd on

Going to try a start_up script - having it run as the very last item. See if this works.