SNMP Gauge32

Mark mac_it_man at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 14 11:30:51 EDT 2011


I'm having trouble getting correct results from SNMP queries sending back Gauge32 values. With snmpwalk I get the following:

snmpwalk -v2c -c public nasusb1 .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6 
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemProcesses.0 = Gauge32: 77


So, the number of processes on nasusb1 is 77. However, Argus graph shows this value as 0. Debugging shows:

srvc::result_valid	1
srvc::retries	2
srvc::showreason	0
srvc::showresult	0
srvc::starts	16
srvc::state	done
srvc::status	up


My config is:

Service UDP/SNMP {
community:	public
debug:	yes
drawgrid:	yes
graph:	yes
label:	processes
maxvalue:	200
oid:	.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6
}


Debug log shows:

Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [] Service start 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] UDP Start: connecting - udp/161, nasusb1, try 1 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] binding to port 24274 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] UDP sent data 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] SNMP recv data 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] SNMP result found: 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6 => 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] SNMP recv - raw value 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] SNMP TEST value 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] SNMP TEST result 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [6] Service - UP 
Sep 14 10:23:59 admin Argus[8141]: DEBUG - Top:Servers:nasusb1:cpu:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.6_nasusb1 - [] Service done 

So, it appears that Argus simply fails to process correctly SMNP response, since "result found" is blank instead of 77.

Any suggestions?

Artur


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