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Hello,

I am trying to put a solaris machine under monitoring.

OS version - SunOS 5.10 Generic_144489-06 i86pc i386 i86pc

SNMP is working fine on the server and it is collecting data for few services , but few other services it is not working.

For example it is collecting data for swap memory usage but physical memory usage is giving error

Unknown storage : Physical memory : ERROR

Could you please help me to resolve this issue.

Regards

Are you using Sun's SNMP implementation or did you install net-snmp?

Hi ssax,

I am using Sun's SNMP implementation.

Can you run a snmpwalk or your Solaris server and post the output back here? Could you also post how you are running the check command that is failing for you?

if you are using check_snmp plugin you can use verbose (-v) and see at what OID it is trying and as suggested by tgriep try snmpwalk and match the OID.

You can grep the output of the snmpwalk to limit (filter) the results. An example:

Hi

Please find the output below.

COMMAND: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp_storage.pl -H HOSTNAME -C STRING -m 'Physical memory' -w 99 -c 100 -f -o 5000

~]# snmpwalk HOSTNAME -v 2c -c STRING| grep -i memory
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrMemorySize.0 = INTEGER: 150985828 KBytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.3 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageVirtualMemory
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.2 = STRING: Real Memory
Timeout: No Response from HOSTNAME
]#

Command output in verbose mode.

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp_storage.pl -H HOSTNAME -C STRING -m 'Physical memory' -w 99 -c 100 -f -o 5000 -v

Alarm at 15
SNMP v1 login
actual max octets:: 1472
new max octets:: 5000
Filter : Physical memory
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.14, Desc : /tmp
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.19, Desc : /u01/appl
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.8, Desc : /etc/mnttab
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.16, Desc : /LOCAL
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.9, Desc : /etc/svc/volatile
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.6, Desc : /system/contract
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.20, Desc : /edsbackup
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.15, Desc : /var/run
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.18, Desc : /patch
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.17, Desc : /home
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.4, Desc : /
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.11, Desc : /etc/dfs/sharetab
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.12, Desc : /lib/libc.so.1
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.7, Desc : /proc
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.3, Desc : Swap Space
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.10, Desc : /system/object
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.2, Desc : Real Memory
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.5, Desc : /devices
OID : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.13, Desc : /var
storages selected : 0
Unknown storage : Physical memory : ERROR

If you are trying to check the amount of memory or storage space?
If you are trying to check the memory of the server you should use the check_snmp_mem.pl plugin.

Hi

I tried with check_snmp_mem.pl plugin, but It is complaining about the format I used for the command. I am not sure what login credentials it is looking for other than community string.
We are getting unknown error for CPU load as well.
Regards
Tino