> From: Dave Shield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> The first thing that I'd be inclined to check is whether
> this problem
> is triggered by the output that's being read in (perhaps the
> size of it),
> or whether it's connected to the command being run (e.g.
> length of time
> to finish).
>
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>
> The data will be out of date, of course, but should help
> pinpoint where
> the problem lies....
It's definitely the size/contents of the output. Using "cat" on the files caused the exact same problem to occur - output truncated for prtdiag/ps, and prtconf just hung up the agent. FYI, here's the stats on the files:
$ wc /tmp/prtdiag /tmp/prtconf /tmp/ps
101 289 2775 /tmp/prtdiag
686 1263 38022 /tmp/prtconf
27 134 1120 /tmp/ps
814 1686 41917 total
Considering I needed to roll-out the agent last week, I'm going to roll out 5.0.9 right now. However, I will volunteer my time / resources towards tracking this issue down. I'll even take a peek at the code to see what I can see ... as soon as I get this roll-out of a new server farm completed.
> One final note - an advance warning if you like.
> The 5.2 release will include a new MIB that provides an alternative
> to the old UCD-SNMP-MIB::extTable, and we'll slowly be moving towards
> using that NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB instead.
Is this MIB in the CVS tree? I didn't see it in the /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs directory post-install for 5.1.1.
> Now don't worry - we're not talking about doing this overnight.
> The current style will certainly be supported in 5.2 and 5.3.
> But it'll be marked as "deprecated" with 5.3, and will probably
> start issuing a warning. And the format is not going to change
> until a 5.4 release at the very earliest.
> But it might be worth looking at the NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB approach
> as soon as 5.2 becomes available.
>
> (Oh, and the reason for the change is that the current multi-line
> output is not actually a legal MIB structure!)
Thanks for the tip - I will be "refactoring" our monitoring system sooner rather than later, and would like to review this new approach, keeping it in mind when re-implementing.
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