[Netdisco] Netdisco discovery fails without trying SNMP

[Sanjeev G. <sa...@dc...>]

Hi,

This is a clean, new, debian install.

I have used netdisco before, on other debian boxes.  Both from an
upstream tarball, and Oliver's packages.

I have installed all three netdisco packages, but not yet started configuring
netdisco-frontend (this is Debian-specific)

Discovery of the first device fails: (IPs changed)

==BEGIN INCLUDE==
netdisco@mon:~$ netdisco -D -d 10.123.51.1
n e t  d i s c o
--------------------------------------------------
Using Config File : /etc/netdisco/netdisco.conf
Loading topology information from /etc/netdisco/netdisco-topology.txt
0 entries loaded
[10.123.51.1] Discover starting
  get_device(10.123.51.1)
  create_device(10.123.51.1,o,1,AutoSpecify,bw:default)
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/allied
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/arista
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/aruba
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/asante
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/cabletron
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/cisco
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/cyclades
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/dell
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/enterasys
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/extreme
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/foundry
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/hp
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/juniper
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/netscreen
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/nortel
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/rfc
SNMP::Info::init() - Adding new mibdir:/usr/share/netdisco/mibs/net-snmp
SNMP::Info::_global layers : sysServices.0
SNMP::Info::_global(layers) Unknown Object Identifier at
/usr/bin/netdisco line 1252
SNMP::Info::specify() - Could not get info from device at
/usr/bin/netdisco line 1252
  Can't connect to 10.123.51.1
! Device Not Supported or I can't connect to it via SNMP.
==END INCLUDE==

The "funny" observations are:

1. cacti on this server runs perfectly against this (and other) devices
2. If I run tcpdump, I cannot see a SNMP packet going out (when I run
netdisco.  I can see packets every 5 mins for cacti)

It is #2 above that makes me feel that this is not a trivial mistake from my
side.

No SELinux, no firewall.  SNMP::Info is 2.01

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages netdisco-common depends on:
ii  libdbd-pg-perl                2.17.1-2   Perl DBI driver for the PostgreSQL
ii  libdbi-perl                   1.612-1    Perl Database Interface (DBI)
ii  libsnmp-info-perl             2.01-1     Object Oriented Perl5 Interface to
ii  perl                          5.10.1-15  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

netdisco-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages netdisco-common suggests:
ii  netdisco-backend              1.0-1      Gather data about network devices
ii  netdisco-frontend             1.0-1      Web front-end for the NetDisco net



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Sanjeev Gupta
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