Re: AIX 5.1 or 5.2, snmpd and cacti
cbaker_at_GOODYEAR.COM
Date: 12/21/04
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:17:34 -0500 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
David,
We are just starting to use cacti here at Goodyear. As of yet, we have
not tried it against an AIX system. But, cacti will be replacing /
augmenting another package called SysEdge - Network Health. What we did
with that package (and other packages that require snmp) is to just run
two (or more) snmp daemons. Just have to pick a different port to
communicate on. This works quite well on our numerous AIX boxes.
Hope that helps.
Christopher M. Baker
Senior Technical Support Analyst
DSE/TCO
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
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AIX 5.1 or 5.2, snmpd and cacti
Hi to all:
I'm deploying a snmp graph/query tool called cacti (
http://www.cacti.net ) to monitor aspects of my Data Center. This Data
Center had some Linux, AIX and other devices snmp capables.
The devices ( routers or switches ) and Linux machines respond very
well to cacti snmp answers. I can store and display traffic, cpu % use,
mounted filesystem total/free space, load average, etc... The problem
comes
with AIX boxes. Googling arround I read that AIX 5.1 and/or Aix 5.2 comes
with snmp V3 enabled by default. I read too that shutting down snmp daemon
and soft linking /usr/sbin/snmpdv1 to /usr/sbin/snmpd, then snmpd v1 is
,of
course, the default snmp daemon.
With this scenario, I can ask to the aix snmpd daemon from the linux
machine in this way:
snmpwalk -v 1 -c readcommunity hostname_or_ip system
and get something like this:
"SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: IBM PowerPC CHRP Computer
Machine Type: 0x0800004c Processor id: 0052189A4C00
Base Operating System Runtime AIX version: 05.02.0000.0010
TCP/IP Client Support version: 05.02.0000.0010
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2.3.1.2.1.1.3
SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (1320573) 3:40:05.73
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING:
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: kppbd
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: CPD Kern Pharma
SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices.0 = INTEGER: 0
"
At least, the aix snmpd daemon is running
But using cacti to create graphics returns no data. I'm thinking in some
type of incompatibility between aix native snmpd and udc/net-snmp client
in
my cacti side.
Googling again I read some people saying that it's better to install
net-snmp in the aix machine and use it as snmpd, but before i try this i
wanna know if anybody has used cacti/net-snmp to ask aix snmpd with
success.
Any other info is always wellcome!
TIA
Regards
David Ballester Montolio
GNU/Linux user #206389
GNU/Linux - Unices Sysadmin
Oracle DBA
SAP-BC
Kern Pharma - Grupo Indukern
www.kernpharma.com
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