Setting ping timeout and running on other machines
didn't help either.

--- Salsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> --- Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 13:29, Salsa wrote:
> > 
> > Dave>  Is the master agent receiving SNMP requests
> > Dave> from other management tools?
> > 
> > Salsa>   I don't think so. My subagent only sends
> > traps.
> > Salsa> Nothing more. It is not responsible for any
> > Salsa> requests,
> > 
> > Fair enough - I'm just trying to rule out as much
> as
> > possible.
> > 
> > Salsa> I run snmpd, snmptrapd and subagent on the
> > Salsa> same machine
> > 
> > It might be worth running the "snmptrapd" on a
> > separate host, so that it's not trying to act as
> > an AgentX subagent.
> >   (There may be a simpler way to achieve this,
> > I'm not sure).
> > 
> > That probably won't make any difference, but it's
> > worth clearing this out of the way too.
> > 
> > By the same token, I'd be tempted to turn off the
> > subagent "ping".  You *might* be able to do this
> > using
> >     agentxPingInterval 0
> > 
> > in the subagent's config file, but it's probably
> > safer to edit the file 'agentx/subagent.c' and
> > change '15' to '0' in subagent_pre_init().  Then
> > recompile and reinstall both master and subagent.
> > 
> > Again, that's *probably* not relevant, but Just
> > In Case...
> > 
> > 
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx/master: send
> > response,
> > > > stat 0 (req=0x5d120d88,trans=0x0,sess=0x7)    
>  
> >                                      
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx_build: packet built
> > okay 
> > > >  
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx/master: handle pdu
> > > > (req=0x5d120d89,trans=0x0,sess=0x7)           
>  
> >    
> > > >  
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx/master: send
> > response,
> > > > stat 0 (req=0x5d120d89,trans=0x0,sess=0x7)    
>  
> >    
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx_build: packet built
> > okay 
> > > >  
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx/master: FAILED 104
> > -12
> > > > Failure in sendto (Connection reset by peer)  
>  
> >                 
> > > >
> > 
> > So the first sign of a problem is that the master
> > agent can't send a response back to the subagent.
> > 
> > But the subagent is still trying to send stuff to
> > the master agent:
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx/master: handle pdu
> > > > (req=0x5d120d8a,trans=0x0,sess=0x7)           
>  
> >    
> > > >
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx/master: send
> > response,
> > > > stat 0 (req=0x5d120d8a,trans=0x0,sess=0x7)    
>  
> >    
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx_build: packet built
> > okay 
> > > >  
> > > > 2005-05-25 09:16:46 agentx/master: FAILED 32
> -12
> > > > Failure in sendto (Broken pipe)
> > 
> > and things get totally confused!
> > 
> > 
> > > > I think the FAILED - 104 is when I kill my
> > subagent
> > 
> > Err... now I'm confused.
> > I thought you said it was the master agent that
> got
> > killed, not the subagent.  That's certainly the
> > subject
> > of this thread.
> > 
>   Well, first time (times actually) this happened,
> my
> subagent would freeze and I would kill it. So I
> checked what was wrong and snmpd was not running, so
> I
> assumed my subagent was killing it. Now I realize
> that
> no one really dies. Actually it looks like my
> subagent
> provoked a deadlock with master agentx. So it is
> there
> waiting to send the final traps while master agent x
> is there waiting for something and not responding
> anyone. And they go like that forever. snmptrapd
> cannot reconnect until I kill my subagent. After
> that
> snmptrapd is able to connect to master agentx again
> and master agentx debug starts spitting those FAILED
> lines beggining with one FAILED - 104 and then a lot
> of FAILED - 32 (with broken pipes). snmptrapd also
> displays some more traps after I kill my subagent.
> 
>  I said (at least tried to) earlier but I think I
> was
> not clear enough. And perhaps not enough now too,
> but
> I 'm clueless about what matters and what doesn't.
> And
> I'm giving symptons like: "All I know is that it
> hurts
> inside my belly."
> 
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Salsa
> 
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