Not able to start the SNMPD services, snmpd[xxxxx]: Error opening specified endpoint "" found in /var/log/messages
Issue
- Unable to start snmpd service. Finding messages similar to the below in /var/log/messages:
Dec 8 13:45:31 hostname snmpd[xxxxx]: Error opening specified endpoint ""
Dec 8 13:45:31 hostname snmpd[xxxxx]: Server Exiting with code 1
Dec 8 13:45:31 hostname systemd: snmpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 8 13:45:31 hostname systemd: Unit snmpd.service entered failed state.
Dec 8 13:45:31 hostname systemd: snmpd.service failed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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