Unable to poll snmpv3 enabled HP ProCurve switch

[yazik]

Hello.

Relevant technical details:

Running...

Cacti Version 0.8.7d
Cacti OS unix
SNMP Version NET-SNMP version: 5.4.1
RRDTool Version RRDTool 1.3.x

Adding the switch to cacti results in the infamous RED "SNMP error". In searching through the forms I can't find anything addressing this specifically for snmpv3 hosts. Then again it was a late night for some of this switch gear I'm wanting to monitor - having all sorts of issues and was up late fixing various issues. I sincerely appreciate any thoughts/insight.

As far as things I've done...

Initially I had a snmpv3 user with a md5 password, no priv. I also placed the user in an operator auth group. After playing a bit with no success, I decided to remove the password and placed the user in an operator noauth group. Running snmpwalk from the cli from the cacti host will work just fine.

I'm not finding a log file for cacti or its use of the poller anywhere to run a 'tail -f' on, but would be glad to do this if someone knows where to point it to. (nothing seen in /var/log/cacti/poller-error.log)

Thanks again folks for any help/insight.

Regards,
yazik

[gandalf]

For debugging, please see 2nd link of my sig.
We had (have?) issues with specific combinations of SNMP V3 parms. This depends on platform used and php version.
R.

[yazik]

Thanks. I've been working through that after seeing it posted for other 'snmp error' issues. Nothing there resolves the issue.

snmpv3 is running on HP Procurve switches (5400/8200 models).

Cacti is running on Ubuntu 9.10.

At this point I'm almost willing to compromise and bump snmpv3 down to v2. (which does work)

If the mix of Procurve + Ubuntu + cacti + snmpv3 is the issue, we'll just move on with v2.

Thanks!

[Sirup]

Can you SNMPWALK from your ubuntubox to the proCurve Switch?

[yazik]

Can you SNMPWALK from your ubuntubox to the proCurve Switch?

Yes.

[gandalf]

Please tell us your parameter set but change passwords
R.