Darn it!  I thought of that but confused it with SNMPCommunityTrap when I 
checked... do I feel dumb.

Thanks Olivier for your help and patience.  I like your suggestion to use the 
web admin.  Eventually I'll do that, but I'm hoping the old-fashion way for the 
time being will help me learn the inner workings.

Steve
CSM

On May 25, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Olivier Bilodeau wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> To me this looks like you are missing the SNMPVersionTrap parameter 
> either in section [default] or in your switch's section of 
> conf/switches.conf.
> 
> Error message is obscure, I filed a bug to fix that: 
> http://www.packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=993
> 
> May I suggest that you use the web admin to configure PacketFence, 
> you'll avoid mistakes like that as it will do the config files for you.
> 
> Keep us posted on your progress and thanks for trying out 1.8.8!
> 
> Steve Wittstruck wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> My scratch 1.8.7 install followed by 1.8.8 seems to have broke SNMP trap 
>> initialization or I'm getting further along than before and uncovered a new 
>> problem:
>> 
>> './pfcmd service pf restart' gives the following messages:
>> ========================================
>> service|command
>> pfdhcplistener|stop
>> pfmon|stop
>> httpd|stop
>> snmptrapd|stop
>> pfsetvlan|stop
>> Checking configuration sanity...
>> network xxx.xx.0.0/18 is larger than a /22 - you may want to consider 
>> registration queueing! at 
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Log/Log4perl/Logger.pm line 866
>> internal IP space is very large - you may want to consider registration 
>> queueing! at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Log/Log4perl/Logger.pm line 866
>> service|command
>> config files|start
>> pfdhcplistener|start
>> pfmon|start
>> httpd|start
>> Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/services.pm
>>        line 823 (#1)
>>    (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already
>>    defined.  It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake.
>>    To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables.
>> 
>>    To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation
>>    you used the undefined value in.  Note, however, that perl optimizes your
>>    program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily
>>    appear literally in your program.  For example, "that $foo" is
>>    usually optimized into "that " . $foo, and the warning will refer to
>>    the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your
>>    program.
>> 
>> snmptrapd|start
>> Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
>>        /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/services.pm line 988 (#1)
>> pfsetvlan|start
>> ========================================
>> 
>> Looking at line 823 in services.pm I see:
>>                if ( $switch->{_SNMPVersionTrap} eq '3' ) {                  
>> <--------------------  the PF restart error suggests 'SNMPVersionTrap' 
>> hasn't been initialized?
>> 
>> Here's my switch config:
>> snmp-server community xxxxxxxx RO 2
>> snmp-server community yyyyyyyy RW 2
>> snmp-server enable traps port-security
>> snmp-server enable traps port-security trap-rate 1
>> snmp-server host xx.xx.xx.xx version 2c zzzzzzzz  port-security
>> 
>> And here's my switches.conf:
>> [default]
>> SNMPVersion = 2c
>> SNMPCommunityRead = xxxxxxxx
>> SNMPCommunityWrite = yyyyyyyy
>> SNMPCommunityTrap = zzzzzzzz
>> [1.2.3.4]
>> type = Cisco::Catalyst_3750                    <------------------------ 
>> note I am using a newly support Catalyst 3750
>> uplink = 3
>> mode = production
>> 
>> Am I doing something wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks a million!
>> Steve Wittstruck
>> Colorado School of Mines
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