Re: [Devmon] HP Proliant DL380

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

On Tuesday, 7 December 2010 07:01:03 Colin Coe wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm having a problem with devmon and some HP Proliant DL380's.  The
> problem is simply that devmon is able to extract info (raid, power,
> temp, etc) from some but not others.

This can occur when a test has some oids that may not be populated at all 
(e.g. using compaq-server on HP ProLiants with no hot spare configured end up 
with a failure polling sprDrvCntIndex, devmon gives up and doesn't poll - say 
- fans).

I think I fixed this in svn with this commit:

http://devmon.svn.sf.net/viewvc/devmon?view=revision&revision=156

(see the explanation there)

If this is not the issue, can you give more information (which tests are 
clear, details from verbose or debug logging indicating what occurs)?

> To make matters less clear, on a
> couple of the hosts where devmon works, I *cannot* snmpwalk from the
> devmon/xymon server and on hosts where devmon doesn't work I *can*
> snmpwalk.

This makes no sense ... please confirm you are using the correct details 
devmon uses (e.g. 'cat -v hosts.db' will show records separated by '^[' 
sequences). You may also want to do some packet tracing (with tcpdump or 
wireshark) if you really can't sort this out.

> I've looked at the oids file and snmpwalked (for example "snmpwalk -v
> 2c -c COMMUNITY_STR server 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.6.2.6.8.1.1") on all the
> hosts where the "compaq;server" tests are clear, and found that I
> could "proper" responses from most of them.

Check all the oids from all tests, or apply the patch from svn, or test with 
svn trunk.

> The mix of working machines includes Linux (RHEL4 & 5) and Windows.
> The non-working machines are all Linux (RHEL4 & 5).
> 
> All Linux nodes have the HP PSP RPMs installed (specifically
> hp-snmp-agents) and include "dlmod cmaX /usr/lib64/libcmaX64.so" at
> the top of /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.
> 
> /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf on all Linux hosts has the line: "rocommunity
> COMMUNITY_STR monhost.company.com" where monhost.company.com is the
> devmon/xymon server.
> 
> The SNMP service has been restarted.
> 
> This has me stumped.


Regards,
Buchan