Summary: Will disabling SNMP affect NIS

Thanks to the following for your immediate responses:

John Birtley
John Douglas
Jennifer Stults


None.

SNMP is for management (such things as reporting the number of packets sent
by a network interface) and NIS is a naming service (hosts, users, groups
etc).




> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-admin@sunmanagers.org
> [mailto:sunmanagers-admin@sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Chambers, Chris
> Sent: 17 April 2002 16:04
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Will disabling SNMP affect NIS
>
>
> Gurus -
> Am running Solaris 8 with a NIS environment. Unfortunately, not
> too familiar
> with the processes or protocols used by NIS.
> Have checked docs.sun.com and did google search, but am not able
> to find any
> information that ties SNMP and NIS together.
> What, if any, effect will disabling SNMP have on NIS?
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
> Chris Chambers
> Unix Systems Support
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