non-default SNMP port definition not working

gpetme · Post by **gpetme** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:54 am

I have a host that uses port 161 for just about all of the Cacti polling that I do. However, the proprietary application that runs on this host also has an SNMP agent that listens on port 8001. This SNMP agent provides application-specific metrics that can be monitored. When I created my data templates I defined the "SNMP Port" as port 8001. But, Cacti still tries to query port 161 for this data. I think the problem is that you can only define a single port for the host, and that overrides anything in the template. But, this seems like it's a bug. Can someone confirm? I'm running Cacti 0.8.7b.

Thanks,

Greg

Post by **gandalf** » Sun May 04, 2008 2:29 pm

Some times ago there was an issue with non-standard SNMP ports. But that should have been solved.
So please tell us
- which poller are you using (cmd.php or spine)
- how do you grap the data; via SCRIPT or via a copy of the "SNMP OID" template?
Reinhard

gpetme · Post by **gpetme** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:19 am

I'm using cmd.php, and I'm graphing the data with an SNMP OID-style template. I can export it for you if you'd like.

Also, one other oddity that I notice is that the SNMP Port field is listed twice. I populated both fields, but this may be indicative of a bug...

Can you send me a link to the patch you mentioned?

Thanks,

Greg

Post by **gandalf** » Tue May 06, 2008 1:47 pm

gpetme wrote:I'm using cmd.php, and I'm graphing the data with an SNMP OID-style template. I can export it for you if you'd like.

Please do so.

Also, one other oddity that I notice is that the SNMP Port field is listed twice. I populated both fields, but this may be indicative of a bug...

strange, indeed

Can you send me a link to the patch you mentioned?

Unfortunately no. And I'm sure it's integrated into 087b. So we must have hit sth new
Reinhard

gpetme · Post by **gpetme** » Tue May 06, 2008 1:52 pm

Okay, it's attached. This should have given you a graph template and a data template called "Broadsoft - MS - Ports In Use".

If you look in the XML, there's two listings of port 8001 (that's my custom SNMP port). Strange indeed.

Thanks again for your help,

Greg

Post by **gandalf** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:20 pm

Please allow for some time of thinking ...
Reinhard

gpetme · Post by **gpetme** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:38 pm

Sure, no problem. Thanks!

Greg

gpetme · Post by **gpetme** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:47 pm

Reinhard -

Any thoughts on what could be wrong here?

Thanks a lot!

Greg

Post by **gandalf** » Sat May 24, 2008 4:01 pm

Sorry. Now it's item#29 on my todo list.
Reinhard

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