Remote Monitoring I added “agentaddress tcp:161″ to snmpd.conf which cases snmpd to listen on tcp port 161. Then it was easy to tunnel the tcp communication with ssh and eliminated the need for the buggy socat method. SSH tunnel ssh -f -N -L 6003:localhost:161 user@digitaldogma.org Then I setup the host using tcp:127.0.0.1 and port 6003 [...]