Nagios Support Forum

Good afternoon,

We're currently undertaking a proof of concept of the Nagios tools and have some specific requirements it needs to meet, many around the receipt and processing of SNMP traps.

I've been able to successfully process traps against a MIB that already exists on the server (SNMPv2-MIB) so I know the process works. As well as supporting hundreds of MIBs in our existing monitoring tools, we maintain our own MIB (attached) which I'm using during our PoC. I've been able to upload it without error but when I attempt to process the traps in the MIB, nothing happens. We get no error returned but no number appears in the Associated Traps column on the Mange MIBs page, nor are they listed in the Defined Traps tab on the SNMP Trap Interface page.

When importing the MIB I observe it's been added to /usr/share/snmp/mibs, we just cannot process the traps.

We're running XI on CentOS 7 (64-bit): We performed a manual installation on a newly built VM.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Many thanks,
Neville

Hello @nevillestyles

Thanks for reaching out on the proof of concept issue that you are working through, sounds like you have made excellent progress, and I am glad that we can assist.

Sounds like you can pull snmp data from a mib that already exists on the server but not from the mibs you brought over. I am wondering if something is going on with permission *(owner/group). Could you go ahead and check "r/w" and ownership. I see this on my test server (ls -l )

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Have you verified snmp can read from your mib and provide data results? For example: If you see correct info, we can then go ahead and check with 'snmptrap' command to see if able to process from mib.

General options
-m MIB[:...] load given list of MIBs (ALL loads everything)
-M DIR[:...] look in given list of directories for MIBs
(default: /root/.snmp/mibs:/usr/share/snmp/mibs)

Please follow up with the results,
Perry

Hi Perry,

Thanks for starting to look at this for us. Here's the long listing of /usr/share/snmp/mibs:
We only use our MIB for SNMP traps, not for polling so I'm unable to test its readability.

Regards,
Neville

Hi Perry,

I've figured it out (by trying to process the MIB using snmpttconvertmib). It turns out we are using underscores in some variable and traps names which were causing issues.

Removing those allowed us to process the traps as expected.

Regards,
Neville

Hello @nevillestyles

Thanks for following up with the details, we see that AFFINITI-MIB.mib is owned by apache nagios and assigned to nagios group.

Let's do the same with the others mibs listed:
Thanks,
Perry