If AIX server does not host an SNMP agent, the dpid2 daemon must be disabled.

The dpid2 daemon acts as a protocol converter, which enables DPI (SNMP v2) sub-agents, such as hostmibd, to talk to a SNMP v1 agent that follows SNMP MUX protocol.

To prevent attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/dpid2" /etc/rc.tcpip

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "dpid2" entry by running command: # chrctcp -d dpid2