Monitoring interfaces with SNMP

[dhull]

I can't get interface information from an ASA. I've tried several templates but they don't seem to work. I installed the template "Template SNMP Network Device Interfaces". The device discovery rule isn't supported. Gives me an error message.

ERROR
snmp_parse_oid(): cannot parse OID "IF-MIB::ifDescr".

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks!

[kloczek]

I can't get interface information from an ASA. I've tried several templates but they don't seem to work. I installed the template "Template SNMP Network Device Interfaces". The device discovery rule isn't supported. Gives me an error message.

ERROR
snmp_parse_oid(): cannot parse OID "IF-MIB::ifDescr".

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks!

IF-MIB::ifDescr of is not OID containing the data or which you can monitor. It is vector of OIDs.
Try to execute:

snmpwalk -v2c -c<comminity_name> <dev.host.name> IF-MIB::ifDescr

and you will see what you can use as OIDs.

[dhull]

Installed SNMP MIBS

Looks like I forgot a step when installing Zabbix. I remembered seeing something about SNMP MIBs for another monitoring system.

1. Installed the SNMP MIBs downloader
2. Downloaded and configured SNMP / MIBs
3. Restarted services
4. Everything Works!

I've got bandwidth graphs for our ASA.

[kloczek]

Looks like I forgot a step when installing Zabbix. I remembered seeing something about SNMP MIBs for another monitoring system.

1. Installed the SNMP MIBs downloader
2. Downloaded and configured SNMP / MIBs
3. Restarted services
4. Everything Works!

I've got bandwidth graphs for our ASA.

IF MIB like many base MIBs comes with base net-snmp installation.
If you are using Linux or other popular Unix you should be not forced to do above unless you are did something wrong before.

[dhull]

Some of the MIBs aren't free

IF MIB like many base MIBs comes with base net-snmp installation.
If you are using Linux or other popular Unix you should be not forced to do above unless you are did something wrong before.

I read somewhere that some of the MIBs are not free. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. They don't include non free software.

[Zarko]

Same issue when running "Template SNMP Device"

I came across the same issue with built-in template "Template SNMP Device".

Running Zabbix 2.2.7 on Ubuntu 14.04.

kloczek can you please explain a bit more how did you fix that problem?

I installed snmp-mibs-downloader which downloaded quite a lot of MIBs, restarted zabbix server, but I still get the same error.

Can you elaborate on "configured SNMP / MIBs" part?

[renanmvc]

snmp_parse_oid(): cannot parse OID "IF-MIB::ifAdminStatus.{#SNMPINDEX}"

I came across the same issue with built-in template "Template SNMP Device".

Running Zabbix 2.2.7 on Ubuntu 14.04.

kloczek can you please explain a bit more how did you fix that problem?

I installed snmp-mibs-downloader which downloaded quite a lot of MIBs, restarted zabbix server, but I still get the same error.

Can you elaborate on "configured SNMP / MIBs" part?

estou tendo o mesmo probema:
snmp_parse_oid(): cannot parse OID "IF-MIB::ifAdminStatus.{#SNMPINDEX}" - template do zabbix em um host configurado snmp
quem conseguiu resolver me contate ou responda aqui, por favor!!
uso o zabbix 3.0 no debian 7.0

[danielrm]

Solved

Don't know what solved, but I installed the following packages (need to add extra and non-free in /etc/apt/sources.list


snmp-mibs-downloader snmpsim unzip libsnmp-mib-compiler-perl