[OpenSER-Users] snmpstats agent failing to connect to master agent

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Mon Sep 17 10:14:20 CEST 2007


Hi Gabi,

a know issue (now fixed) is that you need to run with "fork=yes" in 
order to initialize correctly the agentx on openser side.

regards,
bogdan

Gabi Mahu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am currently trying to get the snmpstats module up
> and running, for monitoring purposes. 
>
> I followed the instructions in the module
> documentation, I studied Net-SNMP references and I
> searched web resources for several days now, but still
> I couldn't succeed in starting the openser module
> properly. I have no idea what the problem could be.
>
> The NET-SNMP part of the equation seams to work
> properly: I am using the 5.4.1 version. I managed to
> play around with the tools from the package, in local
> and remote scenarios too. I was able to send and
> receive traps, get and set different values in the MIB
> tree, load new MIBs...
>
> On the openser part, I'm not doing something special.
> I have a config file that does nothing, except load
> the snmpstats module and set the limits for the
> dialogs and the unparsed data traps. That's it. I
> tried with fork on yes and on no, because I found out
> from my
>  web searches that this could be a problem, but
> all I got was some logging in the no fork scenario,
> saying that the snmp agent from snmpstats could not
> connect to the master agent, the snmpd that runs on
> the same machine. The "check for a proper
> configuration" step in the module documentation failed
> also, before this (I got no output in the snmpd window
> after openser was started, until that point,
> everything was like in the documentation), so this
> couldn't work actually, but i still did it anyway.
>
> The problem must be in the configuration files, but it
> escapes me. This is the content of the files (yes,
> both in the same location...):
>
> snmpd.conf -----------------------------------
> com2sec notConfigUser  default       public
> group   notConfigGroup v1           notConfigUser
> group   notConfigGroup v2c           notConfigUser
> view    systemview    included   .1.3.6.1.2.1.1
> view    systemview    included  
>  .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.1
> access  notConfigGroup ""      any       noauth   
> exact  systemview none none
> syslocation localhost (edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf)
> syscontact Root <root at localhost> (configure
> /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf)
> pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.4413.4.1 /usr/bin/ucd5820stat
> rocommunity public localhost
> trapsink localhost:162 public
> trap2sink localhost:162 public
> authtrapenable 1
> master agentx
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> snmpstats.conf -------------------------------
> agentXSocket tcp:localhost:705
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> And the way I start snmpd now is: snmpd -f -Lo -M
> /usr/local/share/mibs -m ALL -d -x tcp:localhost:705
> I did try several versions including the one found in
> the module documentation.
>
> This is the context of my problem.
> Hopping that there is a small, but obvious mistake, in
> my config files, due to my lack of attention or
> something, and not
>  a more serious thing, I thank you
> for your time.
>
> Gabriel Mahu
>
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