On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:29:29 -0500 Jeff wrote: JM> Strangely, I have no troubles pulling SNMP v2 and v3 from hosts on the JM> same subnet as the monitoring system, but I DO have issues when pulling JM> queries from systems on other subnets.
Are all hosts running the same version of net-snmp? JM> I get responses from about 1 in 5 JM> queries (on average).. And this just started to happen a few weeks ago. Before that, all hosts were working? JM> So for fun, I took a look at the net-snmpd processes on the monitored JM> hosts. Most of the daemons have been running since about 12/28/04, so I JM> figured what the heck and I bounced net-snmpd.. JM> JM> And lo and behold, SNMP queries started working properly again. I JM> performed about 30 consecutive queries spaced over about a 2 hour time JM> period and it worked great every time. JM> JM> Problem is, is that it only worked great for about 4 hours, and now I'm JM> back to things being all screwed up again. Do they respond if you query on the localhost? If you jack up the timeout value? Are they consuming lots of CPU/memory? Can you run one in the foreground and see if packets are received and sent? snmpd -f -Le -d JM> I'm wondering too, if maybe this is a traffic/load issue.. SNMP isn't JM> like ICMP is it? Where network devices will 'discard' the packets as JM> lo-priority if the network or device is congested/overloaded? Nope, but it could be a timeout thing. --- Robert Story; NET-SNMP Junkie Support: <http://www.net-snmp.org/> <irc://irc.freenode.net/#net-snmp> Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=net-snmp-users> You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users