[mrtg] Re: MRTG question.

[Neil Calvert]

possibly the snmpwalker doesn't like the fully qualified OID
(1.3.6.1...) since it said something about sysUptime and sysName. Try
quoting the OIDs only from the mib-2 branch on down, omitting the first
few numbers.

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Lu, Frank <LuF at panasonic.com>
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 3:10 PM
Subject: [mrtg] MRTG question.


>Greeting,
>
>I am using MRTG under NT.
>
>If I want to monitor the in and out LEC control frames for IBM 8210,
are the
>following procedures correct:
>
>1. Download the MIB from IBM for 8210 switch.
>
>2. Find out the variable for in/out control frame. In this case they
are
>"lecControlFrameIn and lecControlFrameOut".
>
>3. Use "cfgmaker" to generate the 8210.cfg file. (perl cfgmaker
>community at 8210_mss > 8120.cfg)
>
>4. Modify the 8210.cfg file to include the "lec.mib".
(LoadMIBs:lec.mib)
>
>5. Modify the 8210.cfg file for changing "Target [8210_mss]:
>lecControlFramesIn&lecControlFramesOut:community at 8210_mss"
>
>6. Run mrtg to generate the HTML files. (perl mrtg 8210.cfg)
>
>Those are what I did and I got an error as: Unknown SNMP var
>lecControlFramesIn and Unknown SNMP var lecControlFramesOut.
>
>After I change the variable to OID as:
>Target[8210_mss]:1.3.6.1.4.1.353.5.3.1.1.4.1.6&1.3.6.1.4.1.353.5.3.1.1.
4.1.5
>:community at 8210_mss (The OID are correct, because I got those from MIB
>Browser, and MIB Browser can get the info from 8210 with this lec.MIB).
I
>got the following error:
>
>SNMP Error:
>Received SNMP response with error code
>  error status: noSuchName
>  index 1 (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.353.5.3.1.1.4.1.6)
>SNMPv1_Session (remote host: "10.128.20.2" [10.128.20.2].161
>                  community: "configure"
>                 request ID: 111543823
>                PDU bufsize: 8000 bytes
>                    timeout: 2s
>                    retries: 5
>                    backoff: 1)
>SNMPGET Problem for 1.3.6.1.4.1.353.5.3.1.1.4.1.6 1.3.6.1.4.1.35
sysUptime
>sysName on configure at 10.128.20.2
>SNMPGET: Failed to reach target: "1.3.6.1.4.1.353.5.3.1.1.4.1.6&
>5.3.1.1.4.1.5:configure at 10.128.20.2". I tried multiple times!
>
>Questions:
>1. When I use the variable, seems the mrtg was not reading the lec.mib,
why
>was that?
>
>2. When I use the OID instead, why I got SNMPGET failure?
>
>3. Do I have to modify the "cfgmaker" and\or "mrtg". If I do, what
should I
>do?
>
>4. If I use the MG_Soft MIB Browser with this lec.MIB, I do not have
problem
>to retrieve the info from this 8210.
>
>Thank you,
>Frank
>
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