Hi Brian,
Thank you for your reply. I had hand generated this file. I have now
used the generator and its working. I did go back and change IpAddress to
InetAddressIPv4 in the manual version and that would work also.
--
Cheers
Chris
On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:57:15 UTC, Brian Candler wrote:
>
> How did you create the snmp.yml - using generator, or by hand?
>
> In the sample configs I see "type: InetAddress" and "type:
> InetAddressIPv4", but not "type: IpAddress"
>
> Notice the following in generator/README.md
> <https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/blob/master/generator/README.md#file-format>
> :
>
> type: DisplayString # Override the metric type, possible types
> are:
> # gauge: An integer with type gauge.
> # counter: An integer with type counter.
> # OctetString: A bit string, rendered as
> 0xff34.
> # DateAndTime: An RFC 2579 DateAndTime byte
> sequence. If the device has no time zone data, UTC is used.
> # DisplayString: An ASCII or UTF-8 string.
> # PhysAddress48: A 48 bit MAC address,
> rendered as 00:01:02:03:04:ff.
> # Float: A 32 bit floating-point value with
> type gauge.
> # Double: A 64 bit floating-point value
> with type gauge.
> # InetAddressIPv4: An IPv4 address,
> rendered as 1.2.3.4.
> # InetAddressIPv6: An IPv6 address,
> rendered as 0102:0304:0506:0708:090A:0B0C:0D0E:0F10.
> # InetAddress: An InetAddress per RFC 4001.
> Must be preceded by an InetAddressType.
> # InetAddressMissingSize: An InetAddress
> that violates section 4.1 of RFC 4001 by
> # not having the size in the index.
> Must be preceded by an InetAddressType.
> # EnumAsInfo: An enum for which a single
> timeseries is created. Good for constant values.
> # EnumAsStateSet: An enum with a time
> series per state. Good for variable low-cardinality enums.
> # Bits: An RFC 2578 BITS construct, which
> produces a StateSet with a time series per bit.
>
> I don't see "IpAddress" in that list. Where did it come from?
>
> On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:39:11 UTC, Chris McKean wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>> I'm trying to get the snmp exporter working so I can get BGP peer
>> state metrics off our routers. It works locally on my machine but when I
>> run the same config on the server I need this to run on it doesn't work.
>>
>
> Define "works locally" versus "doesn't work" - exactly what do you see on
> the local machine, as compared to what you see when deployed on the server?
>
> I would suggest at very least you need to test both machines with curl,
> e.g.
>
> curl 'localhost:9117/snmp?module=bgp4&target=x.x.x.x'
>
> Run this both on the local machine and on the server, and use the same
> target in both cases. What's the difference in behaviour?
>
> Are you using the same version of snmp_exporter on both the local machine
> and the server? That's the only thing I can think of which would have any
> effect.
>
> However, I'm not yet convinced of your claim that the snmp.yml you've
> shown actually works on the local machine.
>
>
>
>
>> So there's obviously some config I'm missing on the server. I don't
>> think, it's the MIB file that's missing. If I run snmptranslate and
>> specify the MIB is brings back a numerical value as expected
>>
>>
> The running snmp_exporter doesn't need MIBs, nor does it need any part of
> net-snmp to be present. It's only the generator which needs this.
> snmp_exporter just reads the YAML file, nothing else.
>
>
> When I try and query the 'bgp4' module this is the output I get.
>>
>>
>> *level=info ts=2020-03-24T10:53:35.919Z caller=main.go:149 msg="Starting
>> snmp_exporter" version="(version=0.17.0, branch=HEAD,
>> revision=f0ad4551a5c2023e383bc8dde2222f47dc760b83)"*
>> *level=info ts=2020-03-24T10:53:35.919Z caller=main.go:150
>> build_context="(go=go1.13.8, user=root@cb51f17d52f8,
>> date=20200217-09:26:25)"*
>> *level=info ts=2020-03-24T10:53:35.932Z caller=main.go:243 msg="Listening
>> on address" address=:9117*
>> *panic: Unknown index type IpAddress*
>>
>>
> Does the panic occur as soon as snmp_exporter starts up? Or only when you
> send the query, e.g. with curl as above?
>
>
>
>> *goroutine 29 [running]:*
>> *main.indexOidsAsString(0xc00032e1d0, 0x4, 0x6, 0xc0001da840, 0x9, 0x0,
>> 0x415800, 0x7fb91dc8fa00, 0x300, 0x7fb91de76fff, ...)*
>> * /app/collector.go:665 +0x1870*
>> *main.indexesToLabels(0xc00032e1d0, 0x4, 0x6, 0xc00021b280, 0xc00027da80,
>> 0x8001c00027d928)*
>> * /app/collector.go:676 +0x169*
>> *main.pduToSamples(0xc00032e1d0, 0x4, 0x6, 0xc00027dab0, 0xc00021b280,
>> 0xc00027da80, 0xabee20, 0xc000252360, 0x0, 0x0, ...)*
>> * /app/collector.go:329 +0x77*
>> *main.collector.Collect(0xaca540, 0xc000098dc0, 0xc0000ca651, 0xb,
>> 0xc000124d20, 0xabee20, 0xc000252360, 0xc000095020)*
>> * /app/collector.go:247 +0x934*
>> *github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus.(*Registry).Gather.func1()
>> <http://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus.(*Registry).Gather.func1()>*
>> *
>> /app/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/registry.go:443
>> <http://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/registry.go:443>
>> +0x19d*
>> *created by
>> github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus.(*Registry).Gather
>> <http://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus.(*Registry).Gather>*
>> *
>> /app/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/registry.go:454
>> <http://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/registry.go:454>
>> +0x57d*
>>
>>
>> Has anyone any idead on this. The server is running Centos 7.5 with
>> netsnmp installed.
>>
>>
> And what's the local machine, where (apparently) it works?
>
>
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