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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any working examples of using SNMP tables in Collectd? It's been driving me crazy for a few weeks now!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Inside the collectd.conf file there is an example configuration. I've created a host like this<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <Host "zeus1.dev"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Address "zeus1.dev"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Version 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Community "public"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Collect "std_traffic"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> </Host><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And used the sample query<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <Data "std_traffic"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Type "if_octets"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Table true<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> InstancePrefix "traffic"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Instance "IF-MIB::ifDescr"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Values "IF-MIB::ifInOctets" "IF-MIB::ifOutOctets"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> </Data><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Which gives me, without fail, five graphs for eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 and lo.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However, if I use snmptable I get<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>root@collectd1:~# snmptable -v 1 -c public zeus1.dev.shazamteam.net IF-MIB::ifDescr<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Was that a table? RFC1213-MIB::ifDescr<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So the OIDs I'm querying as a table aren't a table. However, if I do this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>snmptable -v 1 -c public zeus1.dev.shazamteam.net ZXTM-MIB::nodeTable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>SNMP table: ZXTM-MIB::nodeTable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> nodeIPAddress nodePort nodeHostName etc........<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>I get back a table. If I put this table in to collectd.conf - this is what's there currently but I've tried loads of variations (but still not the right one)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <Data "node_traffic"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Type "zeus_data"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Table true<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> InstancePrefix "traffic"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Instance "ZXTM-MIB::nodeTable"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Values "ZXTM-MIB::nodeBytesToNodeLo" "ZXTM-MIB::nodeBytesFromNodeLo"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> </Data><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is this message repeated in the logs...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[2011-06-27 14:49:17] snmp plugin: OID "ZXTM-MIB::interfaceTxBytesHi."eth2"" is undefined (type ASN_NULL)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What it looks like to me is that collectd collects using table = true from things that aren't tables and vice versa. It is true that "eth2" is undefined but it also has nothing to do with the ZXTM::nodetable<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can anyone help me see what I'm missing?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Steve<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><BR>
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