[CentOS-virt] SNMP monitoring

Mon Oct 1 03:11:09 UTC 2012
joetesta <joetes at gmail.com>

Lars Hecking <lhecking at ...> writes:

>  It seems it's not possible to monitor kvm virtual image network interfaces
>  via SNMP. MRTG's cfgmaker says
> 
> ### The following interface is commented out because:
> ### * has no ifSpeed property

I had the same issue, but only with some of my virtual machines.
I found that the Network adapter needed to be changed 
(or rather removed and a new one added) 
from type "flexible" to "E1000".  
Doing that with the machine powered off, it kept the same MAC address. 
Then the SNMP works / sees the ifspeed correctly.

hope this helps,
Joe