[mrtg] help with MRTG-2.16.3 & OS X 10.6.3

[jwiggins]

Hi Niall.

Thanks for chiming in here.

You are right, and Lyle stated the same thing to me - that a) SNMP didn't appear to be running, and that was true. I have kicked that off..

launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.net-snmp.snmpd.plist
But it also was stated that I needed to install Pod:Usage PERL module via CPAN. I did take a look at this before emailing the list, and I'm actually installing Pod-parser-1.38. This was actually confusing at first when searching CPAN because:

There is Pod::Usage (pod-parser-1.38), Pod::Usage::CommandLine (pod-usage-commandline-0.04), Pod::Usage (perl-5.8.1).

When I take a look at the last one, that is Pod::Usage (perl-5.8.1), wouldn't this be unnecessary since I am running perl 5.10.0, seeing that this package is perl-5.8.1.

nevertheless, the Pod-parser compile is going on right now, and its been chugging for over an hour!?

Thanks again guys

JW
On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Niall O'Reilly wrote:

> On 20/04/10 17:42, jwiggins wrote:
>> Hi MRTG team/users:
>> I am trying to get a deployment of MRTG configured with Mac OS X
>> 10.6.3 and am running into some issues with the initial deployment
>> part, I think I am just making the situation worse for myself and/or
>> causing further frustration & not getting anywhere.
>> I got to the part where I would run cfgmaker, and I entered these
>> parameters in:
>> sh-3.2# ./cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /Library/WebServer/Documents/mrtg' \
>>> --global 'Options[_]: bits,growright' \
>>> --output /usr/local/mrtg-2/cfg/mrtg.cfg \
>>> 
>> But got this error message
>> Can't locate object method "initialize" via package "Pod::Usage" at
>> /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/../lib/mrtg2/Pod/Usage.pm line 516.
> 
> 	I'm only at a brightly-coloured-belt level with MRTG,
> 	so one of the black belts may give you better help.  	I guess that means that cfgmaker noticed something missing 	from the command line, tried to display some documentation 	to help, and tripped over something in your installation.
> 
>> I checked my version of Perl, its 5.10.0 
> 
> 	You'll need one of those black belts to say whether this
> 	is significant.
> 
>> Then I tried again, this time adding a public at localhost for the SNMP portion:
>> sh-3.2# ./cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /Library/WebServer/Documents/mrtg' \
>>> --global 'Options[_]: bits,growright' \
>>> --output /Library/WebServer/mrtg/cfg/SALMEDIA-MONITOR.cfg \
>>> public at localhost
>> This did not appear to work correctly:
>> SNMP Error:
>> no response received
>> SNMPv1_Session (remote host: "localhost" [127.0.0.1].161)
>>                  community: "public"
>>                 request ID: 1714125174
>>                PDU bufsize: 8000 bytes
>>                    timeout: 2s
>>                    retries: 5
>>                    backoff: 1)
>> at /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/../lib/mrtg2/SNMP_util.pm line 629
>> SNMPWALK Problem for 1.3.6.1.2.1.1 on public at localhost::::::v4only
>> at ./cfgmaker line 956
>> WARNING: Skipping public at localhost: as no info could be retrieved
> 
> 	That looks to me like a warning that your target host
> 	(localhost: the Mac itself) is not running an SNMP daemon, 	or is blocking incoming SNMP probe requests on the localhost
> 	address.
> 
> 	Is your Mac actually running an SNMP daemon?
> 	( try 'ps -ef | grep snmp' or 'ps auxww | grep snmp' )
> 
> 	Are you actually trying to monitor the Mac on which you 	plan to run MRTG?  If so, MRTG has to be able to talk
> 	to the SNMP daemon, which must be running and reachable.  	Otherwise, you should point cfgmaker at the unit you want 	to monitor, rather than at localhost.
> 
>> Is it wrong to assume that I can't do indexmaker at this point -
>> right? as when I tried that it failed also:
>> Use of uninitialized value $first in hash element at ./indexmaker line 353.
> 
> 	If the configuration contained no targets, indexmaker would 	have nothing to go on.  Your assumption is reasonable.
> 
> 	I hope this helps.
> 
> 	ATB
> 	Niall O'Reilly
> 
>