Bug ID 553649: The SNMP daemon might lock up and fail to respond to SNMP requests.

Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.1 hf1, 11.5.1 hf2, 11.5.1 hf3, 11.5.1 hf4, 11.5.1 hf5, 11.5.1 hf6, 11.5.1 hf7, 11.5.1 hf8, 11.5.1 hf9, 11.5.1 hf10, 11.5.1 hf11, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 hf1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 hf1, 11.5.3 hf2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 hf1, 11.5.4 hf2, 11.5.4 hf3, 11.5.4 hf4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 hf1, 11.6.0 hf2, 11.6.0 hf3, 11.6.0 hf4, 11.6.0 hf5, 11.6.0 hf6, 11.6.0 hf7, 11.6.0 hf8, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 hf1, 12.0.0 hf2, 12.0.0 hf3, 12.0.0 hf4

Fixed In:
12.1.0, 11.6.1

Opened: Oct 21, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The SNMP daemon might lock up and fail to respond to SNMP requests.

Impact

The BIG-IP system stops responding to SNMP requests. You then cannot monitor the BIG-IP system via SNMP.

Conditions

If the SNMP configuration on the BIG-IP changes and the SNMP daemon restarts. This is a timing issue that might appear intermittently.

Workaround

If the SNMP daemon is locked up, restart it by issuing the following command: bigstart restart snmpd.

Fix Information

The SNMP daemon no longer locks up and become unresponsive when it is restarted.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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