[Xymon] Plan for XYMON and SNMP

Japheth Cleaver cleaver at terabithia.org
Fri May 17 09:59:00 CEST 2019


Other than documentation (obviously), would that be the primary feature 
set that helps makes this a reasonable thing to integrate in officially?

-jc

On 5/16/2019 11:08 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> I just figured out there has to be a task... At first I wondered how 
> xymonnet launched xymon-snmpcollector, then I started running it by 
> hand and running tcpdump to see what was being polled
>
> What it looks like what we don't get is mib variable manipulation ala 
> devmon... calculated load percentages etc.
>
> Still I think a move in the right direction and it directly supports 
> snmp v3
>
>
>
>
> On 5/16/19 10:45 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>> Not sure what that will give you. The OIDs are extracted from the 
>> file snmpmibs.conf, and I expect you'll have to populate that with 
>> anything you want to monitor.
>>
>> One thing I forgot to mention is that you need to create a task to 
>> run the xymon-snmpcollect program every 5 minutes. I created a 
>> tasks.d/xymon-snmpcollect.cfg file containing the following:
>>
>> [snmpcollect]
>>         ENVFILE $XYMONHOME/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>>         CMD $XYMONHOME/ext/xymon-snmpcollect --debug
>>         LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymon-snmpcollect.log
>>         INTERVAL 5m
>>
>> Obviously the --debug flag can be removed.
>>
>> On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 15:26, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Just thinking aloud... Since the build uses net-snmp, it should 
>> use the same mibs net-snmp uses... So xymon will know about my 
>> SmartUPS and poweredge.
>>
>>     I'm gonna have to study the code some more
>>
>>
>>
>>       On 5/16/19 10:08 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>>     > Right you are. DOSNMP is set to "yes" as a result of SNMP being 
>> set to 1 (and the Net-SNMP tools being found).
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 14:42, Bruce Ferrell 
>> <bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org> 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >     On 5/16/19 9:10 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>>     >     > On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 13:36, Bruce Ferrell 
>> <bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org> 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>>
>>     <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org> 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>>>> wrote:
>>     >     >
>>     >     >     Yes, I did Jeremy.  My apologies.
>>     >     >
>>     >     >
>>     >     > No problem.
>>     >     >
>>     >     >     I did figure out I have to export SNMP=1 then 
>> configure and rebuild
>>     >     >
>>     >     >
>>     >     > Ah, I didn't know that. Or I forgot that.
>>     >     >
>>     >     > Just looking at the code now - are you sure this isn't 
>> "DOSNMP=1"?
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >     The Makefile tests for if  $SNMP=1...  At least in 4.3.28
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >     >     What is the tag in the hosts file (if any)?
>>     >     >
>>     >     >
>>     >     > Nothing. The hostnames are found by xymon-snmpcollect in 
>> the snmphosts.cfg. You still need the hosts to be in hosts.cfg, but 
>> not tags are required.
>>     >
>>     >     > Jeremy
>>     >
>>     >     Thanks again!
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >     >     On 5/16/19 6:41 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>>     >     >     > If you meant to say, "Hey Jeremy" then the answer 
>> is, that it's all stuff for Xymon.
>>     >     >     >
>>     >     >     > On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 11:15, Bruce Ferrell 
>> <bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org> 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>>
>>     <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org> 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>>>
>>     >     <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org
>>     <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org 
>> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>>>>> wrote:
>>     >     >     >
>>     >     >     >     Hey Josh, I saw that before.  Is that stuff 
>> that devmon looks at or stuff for xymon.
>>     >     >     >
>>     >     >     >     I'm not at all clear
>>     >     >     >
>>     >     >     >     Thanks in advance
>>     >     >     >
>>     >     >     >     On 5/16/19 6:00 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>>     >     >     >>     Xymon already has code for SNMP that works, 
>> but isn't documented. I have it working for me, but it required a 
>> fair bit or digging to find the right
>>     >     configuration. I've
>>     >     >     >>     posted on this previously; might help: 
>> https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2019-March/046191.html
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>     J
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>     On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 19:26, Bruno Manzoni 
>> <bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch> 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch
>>     <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>> 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>
>>     >     <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>>> 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>
>>     <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>>
>>     >     >     <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch> 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>>>>> wrote:
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>         Thanks you Josh,
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>         Yes I know about devmon (I put my own 
>> devmon version which is a try to be a consolidate version)
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>         In fact, I just would like to know if 
>> there was another SNMP development (but it seems not as you say it 
>> will be merged) inside Xymon . (I am thinking
>>     a way to
>>     >     >     integrate
>>     >     >     >>         SNMP v3, but it do not uses the current 
>> SNMP_session perl lib as it is not supported within this lib)?
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>         Regards
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>         Bruno Manzoni
>>     >     >     >>         (Bonomani)
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>
>>     >     >     >>         Le 14.05.2019 à 15:20, Josh Luthman a écrit :
>>     >     >     >>>         You can just use Devmon these days.
>>     >     >     >>>
>>     >     >     >>>         I've seen nothing to suggest the projects 
>> will be merged.
>>     >     >     >>>
>>     >     >     >>>         Josh Luthman
>>     >     >     >>>         Office: 937-552-2340
>>     >     >     >>>         Direct: 937-552-2343
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>>     >     >     >>>
>>     >     >     >>>         On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 12:33 PM Bruno 
>> Manzoni <bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>
>>     <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>> 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>
>>     >     <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>>> 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>
>>     <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>>
>>     >     >     <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch> 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch 
>> <mailto:bruno.manzoni at ubi-network.ch>>>>> wrote:
>>     >     >     >>>
>>     >     >     >>>             Hello,
>>     >     >     >>>
>>     >     >     >>>             Is there any plan to have SNMP 
>> include with a new version of xymon? If
>>     >     >     >>>             yes, what is the current state?
>>     >
>>
>
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