[CentOS] Re: 4.5 upgrades on production servers?

[Scott Silva]

Scott Silva spake the following on 5/22/2007 2:23 PM:
> Scott Silva spake the following on 5/22/2007 11:44 AM:
>> Dhawal Doshy spake the following on 5/22/2007 9:50 AM:
>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>> Dhawal Doshy spake the following on 5/22/2007 9:25 AM:
>>>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>>>> Abba Communications spake the following on 5/21/2007 4:25 PM:
>>>>>>> Anyone besides me totally throw (most) caution into the wind and yum
>>>>>>> update
>>>>>>> any mission critical production 4.x boxen to 4.5 without any problems?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 8-p
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  - rh
>>>>>> The only issues I am seeing are some snmp timeout errors in
>>>>>> MailScanner-mrtg.
>>>>> Scott,
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you manage to figure out an answer for this?
>>>> Not yet. I can poll snmp without error from the commandline, but get
>>>> timeouts
>>>> almost every run of mailscanner-mrtg.
>>>> I am about ready to disable the snmp tests in mrtg until I can figure
>>>> it out.
>>>> I am getting tired of having my servers nag me all day.
>>>>
>>>> Since you asked, are you seeing the same thing?
>>> Yup, ever since servers upgraded to 4.5.. something like:
>>>
>>> Timeout: No Response from localhost:161
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>>
>>> Works as expected from the command line though.
>>>
>>> - dhawal
>> I just installed the unstable 0.11.0 and it seems to have cleared up. Since
>> unstable is near to 2 years old, it can't be that unstable, but we'll see.
>>
> Nevermind. It just slowed it down to less than 1 per hour.
> 
I got it to stop by creating \etc\sysconfig\snmpd.options with the following;

-------snip-------

OPTIONS="-LS 4 d -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a"

-------snip-------

I guess the default startup options for snmp daemon cause excessive logging,
and can add delays to the responses.
You can read what I ran across here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.general/39531


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