Had an interesting issue. Our installation of SNMP service kept failing.
The same error was shown when using PowerShell, DISM and Server manager.
Long story short, weirdly the installation is only deemed successful if the service can start, if it cannot, the whole installation is rolled back.
In our case a 3rd party app was hogging UDP 161 and SNMP failed to start hence the installation kept rolling back.
The culprit was identified by looking for the process that uses UDP 161 in output of command “NETSTAT -anb”
After killing this process installation work
This is the only solution that has worked for me (Windows Server 2012). In my case, Veeam was the culprit. I killed all of its processes and installed SNMP successfully.
Thanks for this post!
Saved my life.
My UPS was using the SNMP port 161, stopped it and voilà