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Hauru
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Issues with check_iostat

Post by Hauru »

Hello everyone.

I am trying to use this plugin : https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... 1499169198

To check disk iostat with SNMP. But I don't understand why, when I run :

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_diskio_ucd.pl -H X.X.X.X -C community -s 2 -d sdb1 -w 30 -c 50
I have this error :

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DISKIO WARN - Disk sdb1 not found
I have the same issue with sda1,sda2,sda5 ...

I think my SNMP is working on my server because when I try snmpwalk it does work.

this is the result of the command fdisk -l on the server I want to look at :

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 Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 1169682431 1169680384 557,8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

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Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048 561100799 561098752 267,6G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       561102846 584841215  23738370  11,3G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       561102848 584841215  23738368  11,3G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
This is just a sample, I can give you the complete return if needed.

Another question, how can I use this plugin with a windows server ? I tried something like :

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 /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_diskio_ucd.pl -H  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -C community -s 2 -d C -w 30 -c 50
But I have the same error.

I found the commands on this post : https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =7&t=33578

Thank you everyone for your help
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mcapra
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

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Hauru wrote: I think my SNMP is working on my server because when I try snmpwalk it does work.
Can you share the output of an snmpwalk against the 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1 tree? Sometimes the UCD-SNMP-MIB module can exclude disks unless they are specifically mentioned in the snmpd.conf file. I would be curious to see if the snmpwalk includes disks that match the label provided to the script (as well as the associated counters).

Would you also be able to share a copy of the remote machine's snmpd.conf file?
Hauru wrote:Another question, how can I use this plugin with a windows server ?
You would probably need to add the UCD-SNMP-MIB module to your Windows server's SNMP environment. I'm not 100% certain how that could be done if it doesn't currently exist.

NSClient++ has some native options for checking Windows performance counters, which should include disk I/O related stats:
https://docs.nsclient.org/howto/counters/
http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/c ... s/cpu-load
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Hauru
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

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mcapra wrote:
Hauru wrote: I think my SNMP is working on my server because when I try snmpwalk it does work.
Can you share the output of an snmpwalk against the 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1 tree? Sometimes the UCD-SNMP-MIB module can exclude disks unless they are specifically mentioned in the snmpd.conf file. I would be curious to see if the snmpwalk includes disks that match the label provided to the script (as well as the associated counters).
Well, I have this :

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 snmpwalk -v1 X.X.X.X -c public 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1
End of MIB
I thought it was working, but it is not ... When I use this command :

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 snmpwalk -v1 X.X.X.X -c public 
I have something which looks correct, that's why I thought snmpwalk was OK.
mcapra wrote:Would you also be able to share a copy of the remote machine's snmpd.conf file?

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###############################################################################
#
# EXAMPLE.conf:
#   An example configuration file for configuring the Net-SNMP agent ('snmpd')
#   See the 'snmpd.conf(5)' man page for details
#
#  Some entries are deliberately commented out, and will need to be explicitly activated
#
###############################################################################
#
#  AGENT BEHAVIOUR
#

#  Listen for connections from the local system only
#agentAddress  udp:127.0.0.1:161
#  Listen for connections on all interfaces (both IPv4 *and* IPv6)
agentAddress udp:161,udp6:[::1]:161



###############################################################################
#
#  SNMPv3 AUTHENTICATION
#
#  Note that these particular settings don't actually belong here.
#  They should be copied to the file /var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf
#     and the passwords changed, before being uncommented in that file *only*.
#  Then restart the agent

#  createUser authOnlyUser  MD5 "remember to change this password"
#  createUser authPrivUser  SHA "remember to change this one too"  DES
#  createUser internalUser  MD5 "this is only ever used internally, but still change the password"

#  If you also change the usernames (which might be sensible),
#  then remember to update the other occurances in this example config file to match.



###############################################################################
#
#  ACCESS CONTROL
#

                                                 #  system + hrSystem groups only
view   systemonly  included   .1.3.6.1.2.1.1
view   systemonly  included   .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1

                                                 #  Full access from the local host
#rocommunity public  localhost
                                                 #  Default access to basic system info
 rocommunity public  default    -V systemonly
                                                 #  rocommunity6 is for IPv6
 rocommunity6 public  default   -V systemonly
 #  Full access from an example network
                                                 #     Adjust this network address to match your local
                                                 #     settings, change the community string,
                                                 #     and check the 'agentAddress' setting above
#rocommunity secret  10.0.0.0/16

                                                 #  Full read-only access for SNMPv3
 rouser   authOnlyUser
                                                 #  Full write access for encrypted requests
                                                 #     Remember to activate the 'createUser' lines above
#rwuser   authPrivUser   priv

#  It's no longer typically necessary to use the full 'com2sec/group/access' configuration
#  r[ow]user and r[ow]community, together with suitable views, should cover most requirements



###############################################################################
#
#  SYSTEM INFORMATION
#

#  Note that setting these values here, results in the corresponding MIB objects being 'read-only'
#  See snmpd.conf(5) for more details
sysLocation    Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
sysContact     Me <me@example.org>
                                                 # Application + End-to-End layers
sysServices    72


#
#  Process Monitoring
#
                               # At least one  'mountd' process
proc  mountd
                               # No more than 4 'ntalkd' processes - 0 is OK
proc  ntalkd    4
                               # At least one 'sendmail' process, but no more than 10
proc  sendmail 10 1

#  Walk the UCD-SNMP-MIB::prTable to see the resulting output
#  Note that this table will be empty if there are no "proc" entries in the snmpd.conf file


#
#  Disk Monitoring
#
                               # 10MBs required on root disk, 5% free on /var, 10% free on all other disks
disk       /     10000
disk       /var  5%
includeAllDisks  10%

#  Walk the UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskTable to see the resulting output
#  Note that this table will be empty if there are no "disk" entries in the snmpd.conf file


#
#  System Load
#
                               # Unacceptable 1-, 5-, and 15-minute load averages
load   12 10 5

#  Walk the UCD-SNMP-MIB::laTable to see the resulting output
#  Note that this table *will* be populated, even without a "load" entry in the snmpd.conf file



###############################################################################
#
#  ACTIVE MONITORING
#

                                    #   send SNMPv1  traps
 trapsink     localhost public
                                    #   send SNMPv2c traps
#trap2sink    localhost public
                                    #   send SNMPv2c INFORMs
#informsink   localhost public

#  Note that you typically only want *one* of these three lines
#  Uncommenting two (or all three) will result in multiple copies of each notification.


#
#  Event MIB - automatically generate alerts
#
                                   # Remember to activate the 'createUser' lines above
iquerySecName   internalUser
rouser          internalUser
                                   # generate traps on UCD error conditions
defaultMonitors          yes
                                   # generate traps on linkUp/Down
linkUpDownNotifications  yes



###############################################################################
#
#  EXTENDING THE AGENT
#

#
#  Arbitrary extension commands
#
 extend    test1   /bin/echo  Hello, world!
 extend-sh test2   echo Hello, world! ; echo Hi there ; exit 35
#extend-sh test3   /bin/sh /tmp/shtest

#  Note that this last entry requires the script '/tmp/shtest' to be created first,
#    containing the same three shell commands, before the line is uncommented

#  Walk the NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB tables (nsExtendConfigTable, nsExtendOutput1Table
#     and nsExtendOutput2Table) to see the resulting output

#  Note that the "extend" directive supercedes the previous "exec" and "sh" directives
#  However, walking the UCD-SNMP-MIB::extTable should still returns the same output,
#     as well as the fuller results in the above tables.


#
#  "Pass-through" MIB extension command
#
#pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.2.255  /bin/sh       PREFIX/local/passtest
#pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.2.255  /usr/bin/perl PREFIX/local/passtest.pl

# Note that this requires one of the two 'passtest' scripts to be installed first,
#    before the appropriate line is uncommented.
# These scripts can be found in the 'local' directory of the source distribution,
#     and are not installed automatically.

#  Walk the NET-SNMP-PASS-MIB::netSnmpPassExamples subtree to see the resulting output


#
#  AgentX Sub-agents
#
                                           #  Run as an AgentX master agent
 master          agentx
                                           #  Listen for network connections (from localhost)
                                           #    rather than the default named socket /var/agentx/master
#agentXSocket    tcp:localhost:705
About windows, I will take a look at your links, but I prefer use only SNMP if possible :)
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

Post by tgriep »

Can you run the plugin in verbose mode and post the output here so if there are any errors, we can view them?

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_diskio_ucd.pl -H X.X.X.X -C community -s 2 -d sdb1 -w 30 -c 50 --verbose
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

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Hi ! This is what the command returns me :

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Net::SNMP Version: v6.0.1
1st Measurement of DiskIO-Load
Waiting 5 seconds
2nd Measurement of DiskIO-Load
UCD-DISKIO Table - 1st Measurement
======================================
UCD-DISKIO Table - 2nd Measurement
======================================
DISKIO WARN - Disk sdb1 not found
--verbose looks to be an useful command, I didn't know it !
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

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Well, the verbose output did not show anything.

When you ran the snmpwalk

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snmpwalk -v1 X.X.X.X -c public 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1
and you received this output,
End of MIB

Might be because the MIB file on the Nagios server is corrupted, missing, etc...
UCD-DISKIO-MIB

Take a look in the following folder and see if the file is not corrupted, etc...

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/usr/share/snmp/mibs/
The file is usually called UCD-DISKIO-MIB.txt but is there is another similar named file, try removing the other one and see if the snmpwalk functions

Try running

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snmpwalk -v1 X.X.X.X -c public 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1
and

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snmpwalk -v2c X.X.X.X -c public 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1

Also, it looks like that plugin is not compatible with a Windows system.
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

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tgriep wrote:Might be because the MIB file on the Nagios server is corrupted, missing, etc...
UCD-DISKIO-MIB

Take a look in the following folder and see if the file is not corrupted, etc...

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/usr/share/snmp/mibs/
The file is here but I think it is a bit short, but I don't know if it is supposed to be a long file.
tgriep wrote:The file is usually called UCD-DISKIO-MIB.txt but is there is another similar named file, try removing the other one and see if the snmpwalk functions

Try running

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snmpwalk -v1 X.X.X.X -c public 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1
and

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snmpwalk -v2c X.X.X.X -c public 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1

Also, it looks like that plugin is not compatible with a Windows system.
I have two files with similar name :

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- UCD-DEMO-MIB.txt
- UCD-DISKIO-MIB.txt
- UCD-DLMOD-MIB.txt
Which one should I remove? I also have these files :

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- UCD-IPFILTER-MIB.txt
- UCD-IPFWACC-MIB.txt
- UCD-SNMP-MIB-OLD.txt
- UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt
But I think they are less similar to UCD-DISKIO-MIB.txt
tgriep wrote:Also, it looks like that plugin is not compatible with a Windows system.
I think too, it looks like I have to use NSClient ++ if I want to have io data on Windows
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

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I think the issue is with one of these files.

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UCD-SNMP-MIB-OLD.txt
UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt
I don't have the UCD-SNMP-MIB-OLD.txt file on my server and that file maybe causing the problem.
Try moving it out of the /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ folder and try the snmpwalk command again to see if it works.
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

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I tried to move the file UCD-SNMP-MID-OLD.txt and then UCD-SNMP-MID.txt, but it doesn't change anything :

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snmpwalk -v1 X.X.X.X -c public 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1
End of MIB

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snmpwalk -v2c X.X.X.X -c public 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1
iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1 = No more variables left in this MIB View (It is past the end of the MIB tree)
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Re: Issues with check_iostat

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I suspect this still holds true for the default Microsoft-provided Windows SNMP agent:
mcapra wrote: You would probably need to add the UCD-SNMP-MIB module to your Windows server's SNMP environment. I'm not 100% certain how that could be done if it doesn't currently exist.
MIB definitions and MIB modules are two separate things. Think of the MIB module as the actual software that provides the counters, while the MIB definitions translate those counters into something more human-readable. More on MIB modules:
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/tutoria ... index.html

Just having the MIB definitions in-play probably isn't enough if Windows doesn't have the UCD counters to provide. From what I've read, it doesn't look like the generic Windows SNMP agent is providing any of the UCD counters. There exists a Net-SNMP maintained agent for Windows (which is a totally separate SNMP agent from the default Windows one) that likely includes the UC Davis provided modules:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp/files/

But at that point, it'd be much less trouble to just install NSClient++ or use WMI with check_wmi_plus to assess the aforementioned performance counters.
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