[CentOS] can't get Ethernet SNMP information

Rudi Ahlers

rudiahlers at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 18:53:18 UTC 2008


Hi all,

I hope someone can help me with this one.

I'm trying to graph all traffic on the localhost's network card with Cacti.
>From what I understand I should use SNMP to query the traffic, but I can't
seem to get SNMP info for the network interface.

I have installed all the necessary snmp tools, "yum install snmpd net-snmp
net-snmp-utils net-snmp-devel net-snmpt-libs " and then started snmpd
(/etc/init.d/snmpd start)

running snmpwalk, I get the following:


snmpwalk -v 1 -c public localhost
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux localhost 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5xen #1
SMP Tue Aug 5 08:11:18 EDT 2008 x86_64
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: NET-SNMP-MIB::netSnmpAgentOIDs.10
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (127237) 0:21:12.37
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: Rudi Ahlers <root at localhost>
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: localhost
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: IS
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORLastChange.0 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: TCP-MIB::tcpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: IP-MIB::ip
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.4 = OID: UDP-MIB::udpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.5 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.6 = OID: SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB::snmpFrameworkMIBCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.7 = OID: SNMP-MPD-MIB::snmpMPDCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.8 = OID: SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmMIBCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.2 = STRING: The MIB module for managing TCP
implementations
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The MIB module for managing IP and ICMP
implementations
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.4 = STRING: The MIB module for managing UDP
implementations
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.5 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.6 = STRING: The SNMP Management Architecture MIB.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.7 = STRING: The MIB for Message Processing and
Dispatching.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.8 = STRING: The management information definitions
for the SNMP User-based Security Model.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.4 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.5 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.6 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.7 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.8 = Timeticks: (6) 0:00:00.06
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemUptime.0 = Timeticks: (130862) 0:21:48.62
End of MIB



Yet, when I try and query the "SNMP - Interface Statistics", it doesn't
return any information.

Running debug for the interface in Cacti, I get the following:

+ Running data query [1].
+ Found type = '3' [snmp query].
+ Found data query XML file at
'/var/www/html/graphs/resource/snmp_queries/interface.xml'
+ XML file parsed ok.
+ Executing SNMP walk for list of indexes @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1'
+ No SNMP data returned
+ Found data query XML file at
'/var/www/html/graphs/resource/snmp_queries/interface.xml'
+ Found data query XML file at
'/var/www/html/graphs/resource/snmp_queries/interface.xml'
+ Found data query XML file at
'/var/www/html/graphs/resource/snmp_queries/interface.xml'








Can someone please help me with this one?
-- 

Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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