Date: 20 Nov 1996 20:04:35 GMT From: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help: ucd-snmpd w/freebsd Message-ID: <56vo8j$irv$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <199611182122.OAA09009@hemi.com>
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In article <Mutt.19961118180324.jc@irbs.com>, jc@irbs.com (John Capo) writes: > Quoting Ade Barkah (mbarkah@hemi.com): >> Hello, >> >> I'm getting rather frustrated trying to get an snmpd running for >> FreeBSD 2.1 machines. Please help! =-) Problem: the interface counters >> never seem to get updated once snmpd is running. >> >> Example. (on a pretty busy system network-wise): >> >> $ snmpget -v 1 localhost public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1 >> interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1 = 558046531 >> >> (five minutes later) >> >> $ snmpget -v 1 localhost public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1 >> interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1 = 558046531 >> > > The result of the last request is cached by snmpd. I haven't looked > at the code to see if this is a feature or not. Query another > variable then query ifInOctets.1 again and you should see that it > has changed. > > John Capo I ran into this when setting up mrtg, and disabled the "optimisation" in the snmpd code. I was unsure whether to commit the patch to the ports collection, it makes very little difference in cpu resource consumption but certainly makes a lot of strange side effects disappear. -Peter
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