YAML was valid and I quoted the passwords. I did not test with snmpwalk but we were polling from Observium with the same passwords with no issues.
On Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 10:15:35 AM UTC-7 Brian Candler wrote: > Was the YAML valid with those special characters? Did you quote the > password? > > Were you able to use snmpwalk to access the device when it was configured > with a password with special characters? (i.e. it's possibly a bug in the > device, rather than snmp_exporter) > > On Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 20:59:53 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > >> Sort of figured it out.. After switching to passwords that did NOT >> include special characters, the scrapes started returning metrics. Hard to >> tell but this could be a bug? >> >> On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 10:24:52 AM UTC-7 Nolan Crooks wrote: >> >>> Also - another question which is unclear from the documentation: >>> >>> When using the generator.yml file to generate snmp.yml, are the values >>> "password" and "priv_password" entered as plaintext in the generator.yml >>> config file or do they need to be encrypted already with their given >>> "auth_protocol" and "priv_protocol"? I had assumed that you give the >>> passwords in plaintext and the generator would use the given algorithm to >>> encrypt them. >>> >>> On Monday, July 19, 2021 at 4:58:11 PM UTC-7 Nolan Crooks wrote: >>> >>>> Also - if its noteworthy, I am using a custom MIB file, for Observium: >>>> https://mibs.observium.org/mib/PowerNet-MIB/ >>>> >>>> On Monday, July 19, 2021 at 4:53:37 PM UTC-7 Nolan Crooks wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> >>>>> I'm having trouble getting the snmp_exporter >>>>> <https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter> working with my >>>>> Prometheus instances. I have successfully built and am running the >>>>> exporter >>>>> across my instances, and have configured it as follows using the >>>>> generator >>>>> <https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/tree/main/generator> tool >>>>> to scrape the rPDU2DeviceStatusPower metric: >>>>> >>>>> modules: >>>>> main: # The module name. You can have as many modules as you want. >>>>> walk: # List of OIDs to walk. Can also be SNMP object names >>>>> or specific instances. >>>>> - rPDU2DeviceStatusPower >>>>> version: 3 # SNMP version to use. Defaults to 2. >>>>> # 1 will use GETNEXT, 2 and 3 use GETBULK. >>>>> max_repetitions: 25 # How many objects to request with >>>>> GET/GETBULK, defaults to 25. >>>>> # May need to be reduced for buggy devices. >>>>> retries: 3 # How many times to retry a failed request, defaults >>>>> to 3. >>>>> timeout: 5s # Timeout for each individual SNMP request, defaults >>>>> to 5s. >>>>> >>>>> auth: >>>>> # Community string is used with SNMP v1 and v2. Defaults to >>>>> "public". >>>>> community: public >>>>> >>>>> # v3 has different and more complex settings. >>>>> # Which are required depends on the security_level. >>>>> # The equivalent options on NetSNMP commands like snmpbulkwalk >>>>> # and snmpget are also listed. See snmpcmd(1). >>>>> username: xxx # Required, no default. -u option to NetSNMP. >>>>> security_level: xxx # Defaults to noAuthNoPriv. -l option to >>>>> NetSNMP. >>>>> # Can be noAuthNoPriv, authNoPriv >>>>> or authPriv. >>>>> password: xxx # Has no default. Also known as authKey, -A >>>>> option to NetSNMP. >>>>> # Required if security_level is authNoPriv or >>>>> authPriv. >>>>> auth_protocol: xxx # MD5, SHA, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, or >>>>> SHA512. Defaults to MD5. -a option to NetSNMP. >>>>> # Used if security_level is authNoPriv or >>>>> authPriv. >>>>> priv_protocol: xxx # DES, AES, AES192, or AES256. Defaults to >>>>> DES. -x option to NetSNMP. >>>>> # Used if security_level is authPriv. >>>>> priv_password: xxx # Has no default. Also known as privKey, -X >>>>> option to NetSNMP. >>>>> # Required if security_level is >>>>> authPriv. >>>>> context_name: xxx # Has no default. -n option to NetSNMP. >>>>> # Required if context is configured on the >>>>> device. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> With this configuration, the scrape is always successful, however the >>>>> only metrics that are returned are as follows: >>>>> >>>>> # HELP snmp_scrape_duration_seconds Total SNMP time scrape took (walk >>>>> and processing). # TYPE snmp_scrape_duration_seconds gauge >>>>> snmp_scrape_duration_seconds 16.188805557 # HELP >>>>> snmp_scrape_pdus_returned >>>>> PDUs returned from walk. # TYPE snmp_scrape_pdus_returned gauge >>>>> snmp_scrape_pdus_returned 0 # HELP snmp_scrape_walk_duration_seconds Time >>>>> SNMP walk/bulkwalk took. # TYPE snmp_scrape_walk_duration_seconds gauge >>>>> snmp_scrape_walk_duration_seconds 16.18876831 >>>>> >>>>> Whereas I'm expecting to see more information here. No errors in debug >>>>> output of the exporter, simply: >>>>> >>>>> module=main target=xxxx msg="Walking subtree" >>>>> oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.26.4.3.1.5 >>>>> module=main target=xxxx msg="Walk of subtree completed" >>>>> oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.26.4.3.1.5 duration_seconds=17.972985349s >>>>> module=main target=xxxx msg="Finished scrape" >>>>> duration_seconds=17.979233908 >>>>> >>>>> I'm wondering if I'm missing a step or something obvious here. If >>>>> anyone could provide any tips I would be greatly appreciative. I'm new to >>>>> SNMP and related concepts. I've also tried with a few other OIDs and >>>>> Object >>>>> Names to no avail. >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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