Hi net-snmp-users,
My apologies for dragging up what is no doubt a well trodden path. I
have been asked by our client to get their SLES9/RHEL/Linux servers
reporting to their Solarwinds Orion network monitoring software, there
are issues monitoring CPU and/or Memory. I have spent time investigating
this issue and found the same question frequently asked without
satisfactory answers. Solarwinds support are particularly unhelpful on
this subject (I have heard that during a phonecall they denied they
claim compatibility with Linux).
In a nutshell is there a definitive answer/position on the compatibility
between net-snmp (particularly the 5.1 series provided with SLES9) and
Solarwinds Orion 7.8.2. An answer and any advice on achieving
compatibility would be much appreciated. I provided below some more
information gleaned during my investigation for those who are interested.
We have observed better compatibility with the latest
net-snmp-5.1.3.1-0.6 SLES9 update (issued 20051205) than the previous
SLES9 5.1 versions, no additional improvements were observed using
net-snmp-5.2.1-5.2 from SUSE Pro 9.3.
My final course of action, should no answers be forthcoming, is to
install and compile net-snmp 5.0.9 the version Solarwinds claim
compatibility with.
If there is a answer my I suggest it is added to the FAQ.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Stephen Chaddock
Information:
According to the SLES maintenance advisories the snmp packages that are
kept synchronised via updates are net-snmp, net-snmp-devel and perl-snmp
(not perl-Net-SNMP).
The following is a list of net-snmp package versions provided by Novell
for SLES9:
net-snmp-5.1-80.3 SLES9 original SLES9 release package
net-snmp-5.1-80.6 SLES9 update 20040730
net-snmp-5.1-80.11 SLES9 update 20041230 - provided with SLES9 SP1
net-snmp-5.1-80.16 SLES9 update 20050225
net-snmp-5.1-80.19 SLES9 update 20050719 - provided with SLES9 SP2
net-snmp-5.1-80.22 SLES9 update 20051017
net-snmp-5.1.3.1-0.6 SLES9 update 20051205 - current
net-snmp-<version>-<SLES9 version>
With the installation of the HP Proliant Support Packs (HP PSP) for
SLES9, HP provide their own versions of the net-snmp packages with some
extensions: net-snmp-cmaX, net-snmp-devel-cmaX.
net-snmp-cmaX-5.1-199 HP PSP 7.20 20050205
net-snmp-cmaX-5.1-220 HP PSP 7.30 20050504
<Missing or removed> HP PSP 7.40 20050909
net-snmp-cmaX-<version>-<HP version>
SUSE Pro 9.3 provides SLES9 binary compatible versions of net-snmp 5.2
(and nice SUSE source packages to recompile on SLES9 if you need to keep
things clean and compatible).
net-snmp-5.2.1-5 SUSE Pro 9.3 release package
net-snmp-5.2.1-5.2 SUSE Pro 9.3 latest update
SUSE 10.0 and 10.1 appear to be the same packages but on latest build
platforms.
Relevant previous net-snmp-users posts:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11179048
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11179050
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11184070
Note: During testing the (deprecated) ssCpuIdle OID did not change from
"99" on several systems when checked with snmpget/walk.
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