On one of my servers Windows 2003 SNMP service could no longer start up properly: each attempt to start a message rather uninformative appears:
The SNMP Service service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, service alerts and performance logs.
In the event log, no error message but a series of informational message:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7035
Description: A start control was successfully sent to service SNMP Service.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7036
Description: The SNMP service entered the stopped state.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SNMP
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1003
Description: The SNMP service stopped successfully.
Nothing very clear about the problem so ...
In my case I eventually discovered that the default port 161 used by the SNMP service was used by another service. To solve the problem just go to C: \ Windows \ system32 \ drivers \ etc and edit the file services. We must then modify the line:
snmp 161/udp #SNMP
by
snmp 165/udp #SNMP
for example.
Once this line has changed and saved the file, the SNMP service can start correctly.
Tags: Monitoring , SNMP , Windows 2003
