Any workaround or patches forthcoming for this?
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable,
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lived well". (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
>________________________________
>From: Chris Bartram <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]"
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:56 PM
>Subject: bug in output passed to scripts via snmptrapd?
>
>
>I have a script receiving output from snmptrapd; it does a simple read <STDIN>
>and breaks each line into an oid/value pair. To aid in debugging I'm logging
>all the oid/value pairs the script gets to a log file.
>
>
>It appears that for some VMWare SNMP traps - one (STRING) field of which
>happens to be full of "token:" type strings - the parser is breaking this
>single field down into multiple input lines - apparently getting confused by
>the embedded tokens: in the line? It obviously wreaks havoc on the script.
>Below is a sample of one of the traps. Running:
>
>
>RHEL: Linux hostname 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 20 07:12:06 EDT 2010
>x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>NET-SNMP Version: 5.3.2.2
>
>
>First the data as logged by /var/log/messages:
>
>
>Aug 10 13:00:23 snmp-server snmptrapd[11148]: 2011-08-10 13:00:23
>nwg-vmmgmt-001.ad.xyz.org [192.1.1.13] (via UDP: [192.1.1.13]:62242) TRAP,
>SNMP v1, community public VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB::vmwVC Enterprise
>Specific Trap (VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vpxdAlarmInfo) Uptime: 15 days,
>14:12:14.73
>VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdTargetObjType.0 = INTEGER: other(4)
>VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdOldStatus.0 = STRING: Gray
>VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdNewStatus.0 = STRING: Red
>VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdObjValue.0 = STRING: [Custom] Cluster - HA Alarms
>- Event: HA host isolated (47037960) Summary: Host hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org
>has been isolated from cluster HP7KDEV in DATACENTER1 Date: 8/10/2011 4:58:53
>PM Resource pool: HP7KDEV Data center: DATACENTER1 Arguments:
>isolatedHost.name = hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org OR
Event: HA host isolated (47037960) Summary: Host hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org has
been isolated from cluster HP7KDEV in DATACENTER1 Date: 8/10/2011 4:58:53 PM
Resource pool: HP7KDEV Data cent
>
>
>
>Now what my scripts is passed. The leading numbers on each lines are counters
>of the input lines the script reads:
>
>
>1: oid:DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance
>1: value:15:14:12:14.73
>2: oid:SNMPv2-MIB::snmpTrapOID.0
>2: value:VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vpxdAlarmInfo
>3: oid:VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdTargetObjType.0
>3: value:other
>4: oid:VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdOldStatus.0
>4: value:Gray
>5: oid:VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdNewStatus.0
>5: value:Red
>6: oid:VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdObjValue.0
>6: value:[Custom] Cluster - HA Alarms - Event: HA host isolated (47037960)
>7: oid:Summary:
>7: value:Host hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org has been
isolated from cluster HP7KDEV in DATACENTER1
>8: oid:Date:
>8: value:8/10/2011 4:58:53 PM
>9: oid:Resource
>9: value:pool: HP7KDEV
>10: oid:Data
>10: value:center: DATACENTER1
>11: oid:Arguments:
>11: value:
>12: oid:isolatedHost.name
>12: value:= hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org
>13: oid:OR
>13: value:Event: HA host isolated (47037960)
>14: oid:Summary:
>14: value:Host hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org has been isolated from cluster HP7KDEV
>in DATACENTER1
>15: oid:Date:
>15: value:8/10/2011 4:58:53 PM
>16: oid:Resource
>16: value:pool: HP7KDEV
>17: oid:Data
>17: value:center: DATACENTER1
>18: oid:Arguments:
>18: value:
>19: oid:isolatedHost.name
>19: value:= hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org
>20: oid:OR
>20: value:Event: HA host isolated (47037960)
>21: oid:Summary:
>21: value:Host hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org has been isolated from cluster HP7KDEV
>in DATACENTER1
>22: oid:Date:
>22: value:8/10/2011 4:58:53 PM
>23:
oid:Resource
>23: value:pool: HP7KDEV
>24: oid:Data
>24: value:center: DATACENTER1
>25: oid:Arguments:
>25: value:
>26: oid:isolatedHost.name
>26: value:= hpblade41-3.devl.xyz.org
>27: oid:
>27: value:
>28: oid:VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB::vmwVpxdTargetObj.0
>28: value:HP7KDEV
>29: oid:SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB::snmpTrapAddress.0
>29: value:192.1.1.13
>30: oid:SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB::snmpTrapCommunity.0
>30: value:public
>31: oid:SNMPv2-MIB::snmpTrapEnterprise.0
>31: value:VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB::vmwVC
>
>
>Is it a known issue?
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance;
> -Chris Bartram
>
>"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable,
>to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and
>lived well". (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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