[Voyage-linux] SNMP not returning full data

[Edwin Whitelaw]

Can't see the forest for the trees.  Turns out it was the paranoid 
default setting that (partially) overrode the readonly access I had 
entered for my mrtg server.  It's possible the default settings changed 
from earlier package releases or just that I forgot I had changed them.  
What threw me off was that I could get the system information from the 
daemon but nothing about the interfaces.

It doesn't appear necessary to do anything with the 
/var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf file, at least for my purposes.

Thanks for tickling my brain cells and hope the discussion helps someone 
else.

Edwin

Brian Anderson wrote:
> Check your etc/snmpd/snmpd.conf and make sure it's set for read-only as
> opposed to paranoid. That should do the trick. Also, there's a file in
> /var/lib/snmp called snmp.conf that I moved to /ro/var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf
> and made a link in the original location to /rw/var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf
> because it seemed appropriate. I don't know that I ever tested it without
> doing that, so I can't speak to the necessity. But it didn't hurt.
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: voyage-linux-bounces+bwanderson=cableone.net at list.voyage.hk
> [mailto:voyage-linux-bounces+bwanderson=cableone.net at list.voyage.hk] On
> Behalf Of Edwin Whitelaw
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 7:42 AM
> To: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
> Subject: [Voyage-linux] SNMP not returning full data
>
> Not sure if this is a Voyage problem per se ...
>
> Most of my many WRAPs are identically loaded with Voyage 0.2 plus I've 
> installed snmpd to monitor them.  For some reason I've not yet 
> discovered (hence this email), the last few will not return anything 
> except the basic system info when queried by MRTG's cfgmaker (or 
> snmpwalk run manually for that matter).  So far I can't find any 
> difference in version numbers, snmpd.conf or mibs between the ones that 
> work fine and the newer ones.
>
> Anyone else had this problem and what am I missing here?  It used to 
> work and I can't find what's changed.  :-(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Edwin
>
> ----------dpkg output
> pilotmtn:~# dpkg -l snmpd
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name              Version           Description
> +++-=================-=================-====================================
> ==============
> ii  snmpd             5.2.2-3           NET SNMP (Simple Network 
> Management Protocol) Agen
> ----------end
>
>   

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Edwin Whitelaw, P.E.
New River Valley Unwired, LLC
2200 Lonesome Dove Dr
Christiansburg, VA 24073
540-239-0318