Re: [Devmon] Perl-errors while polling

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

Please keep replies on the list. Other people on the list may be able to help 
you as well ...

On Monday 19 January 2009 16:23:46 David Lindin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I did try to create a template for the Poweredge 2850. It was almost a copy
> of the Poweredge template. I did try how the lookup worked wit that one.
> The problem is not that the Poweredge-template is not working. becaus I'm
> interested in the Powerconnect switches.

Sure, but with two broken templates, it's difficult to tell which one you 
actually want help with.

> They do not have the same OID as
> Poweredge.

No, most likely it is a better idea to start with another switch or similar 
device. The linux-openwrt template may be a good one to start with (it's 
actually very generic, it's if_* tests only use IFMIB), or if the 
PowerConnect's are more similar to Cisco equipment, maybe the cisco-6509 
template (but it uses some non-IFMIB Cisco-specific MIBs in it's if_* tests).

> The issue is that I get the "Use of uninitialized value in join
> or string at /usr/share/perl5/BER.pm line 294, <$__ANONIO__> line 9."-line.

RIght, but you didn't reply to my reply on this topic, which I have included 
again for you below.

> When i google on it it looks like it is some problem with concatenation
> with NULL-values. I do not know...

Well, you seem to be trying to use an OID name, not a numeric OID, which is 
not supported at present. Use the numeric OID.

> In Xymon the result is following "primary OID FanDescr1 in table is a
> non-repeater". I get this on all SNMP-data that I have tried on. When I try
> to use a normal SNMP-walk i get a lot of results with the exact same OID,
> only this time not with Perl.
>
>
> The Poweredge-2850 Template is gone now and it is still not working.



My previous reply:

> > [09-01-19@13:33:02] DEBUG SNMP: Pooling 1 oids
> >
> > [09-01-19@13:33:02] DEBUG SNMP: 1
> >
> > [09-01-19@13:33:02] DEBUG SNMP: 0 => SNMPv2-SMI
> >
> > [09-01-19@13:33:02] DEBUG SNMP: Adding ID => 1 OID =>SNMPv2-SMI
>
> This looks suspicious. At present, I don't believe devmon will support the
> use of textual OID definitions. Please use the numeric OID in the 'oids'
> file only.

Also, it may help if you post your template.


Regards,
Buchan