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Heiko_Engemann_
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Jun 13, 2008

cacti stopped graphing

Hello,

i followed the guide on this site to setup a cacti monitoring,,

it worked great for some weeks, but than it stopped wokring.

All the graphs are empty for 2 weeks now.

We have 2 BigIP Servers, the active one seems not to response to any snmp requests.

We created a new VS and on the passive I see in the list where I can add new Graphs,

but not on the active one.

here is a snmp example:

       
        [root@monitoring-1:/var/www/cacti/log] snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 172.17.1.12 .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.10.2.3.1.12.18.119.119.119.46.103.115.45.119.97.114.114.97.110.116.115.46.100.101        
        SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3375.2.2.10.2.3.1.12.18.119.119.119.46.103.115.45.119.97.114.114.97.110.116.115.46.100.101 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID     
   

        
        [root@monitoring-1:/var/www/cacti/log] snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 172.17.1.11 .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.10.2.3.1.12.18.119.119.119.46.103.115.45.119.97.114.114.97.110.116.115.46.100.101        
        SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3375.2.2.10.2.3.1.12.18.119.119.119.46.103.115.45.119.97.114.114.97.110.116.115.46.100.101 = Counter64: 0         
    

a simple snmpwalk withtout an OID brings a a couple of results.

this are the errors in the cacti logfile:

              
        06/13/2008 08:15:21 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[434] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid.  Partial Result: No Such Object avail        
        06/13/2008 08:15:21 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[435] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid.  Partial Result: No Such Object avail        
        06/13/2008 08:15:21 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[439] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid.  Partial Result: No Such Object avail        
        06/13/2008 08:15:21 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[434] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid.  Partial Result: No Such Object avail        
        06/13/2008 08:15:21 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[436] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid.  Partial Result: No Such Object avail        
        06/13/2008 08:15:21 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[435] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid.  Partial Result: No Such Object avail        
    

I created 2 news devices, one for each LB, in associated data queries, there is a difference between both LB:

        
 1) F5 BigIP - Interface Statistics   (Verbose Query)   Uptime Goes Backwards   Success 14 Items, 7 Rows    
 2) F5 BigIP - VS Statistics (Verbose Query) Uptime Goes Backwards Success 452 Items, 113 Rows    
 

                 
 1) F5 BigIP - Interface Statistics   (Verbose Query)   Uptime Goes Backwards   Success 14 Items, 7 Rows  
 2) F5 BigIP - VS Statistics (Verbose Query) Uptime Goes Backwards Success 0 Items, 0 Rows     
 

Strange thing is that it also does not talk to nagios, the passive one does.

I cant find any difference in the settings on both servers, we didnt change anything.

Can this be a load problem?

thx

Heiko

6 Replies

  • You're not the first to experience this issue. Open a case with support, as both units should always answer queries. You could try to kickstart it by restarting the snmp daemon (bigstart restart snmpd)
  • hello elah,

     

    a restart of the snmpd did help, a bit.

     

    Now the snmpwalk does work on both, but cacti still is only creating some graphs.

     

    Il wait an hour and see what happens.

     

    EDIT:

     

     

    It is working with some breaks, it stops for some minutes and than starts graphing again.

     

    With our nagios I get all the Vserver stats but no poolstats for our active unit.
  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Ahh.... What version of BigIP you running? We used to have problems back with one of the 4.x branches where snmpd had a memory leak... It would go slower & slower, eventually only responding after the SNMP manager had timed out (30 seconds in that case IIRC).

     

     

    I know haven't seen it at 9.3.1, not sure if we saw it at 9.1 or not...

     

     

    H
  • Hello,

     

     

    it is now working for the last days. thx for the ip.

     

    We still have problems with snmp queries and nagios.

     

    I have a plugin which monitors the poolmembers, when there are not enoguh we get a warning.

     

    Are there any other linux commadline tools that can monitor the state of a bigIP pool and report

     

    changes?

     

     

    thx

     

     

    HEiko
  • Check out the codeshare, there are plenty of examples (or close) in a couple languages that will get you on the way. Here's an example of pool status in pyControl:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/pyControlQuickPoolStatus.html Click here
  • Hello,

     

    well im not familiar with python, and in the example are some lines missing i can try that out.

     

    Are there any out of the box monitoring tools for F5 LoadBalancers,

     

    we need something that give us an email when a poolmembers isnt available any more.

     

     

    Other questions is, can I give a snmp query on the bigIP more priorioty?

     

    I still get timeouts on the pool stats, tried to run the nagios plugin from the bash, but still there are some timeouts.

     

     

     

    greetings