# snmp - will not start on boot

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**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [September 19, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snmp-will-not-start-on-boot/28667 "2016-09-19T17:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![cisaksen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@cisaksen](https://forums.suse.com/u/cisaksen)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snmp-will-not-start-on-boot/28667/1 "2016-09-19T17:23:50Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snmp-will-not-start-on-boot/28667/2 "2016-09-19T18:19:26Z")

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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:

```auto
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;

```auto
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.

–  
Good luck.

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**Author:** ![cisaksen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@cisaksen](https://forums.suse.com/u/cisaksen)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snmp-will-not-start-on-boot/28667/3 "2016-09-19T18:34:14Z")

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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.