Trouble enabling SNMP monitoring

[Nasso]

Hi guys,

Initially, I configured Zabbix without the --with-net-snmp switch. I'd like to now enable this feature but can't seem to get it right. Can you guys take a look? I'm running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (i586) and have installed the following packages:

net-snmp-5.3.0.1-25.15
net-snmp-devel-5.3.0.1-25.15
tcpd-7.6-731.2 (installed by default)
tcpd-devel-7.6-731.2

Here's what I've done...

/etc/init.d/zabbix_server stop
/etc/init.d/mysql stop
/etc/init.d/snmpd stop

./configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-net-snmp --with-mysql --with-libcurl

make install

/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start
/etc/init.d/mysql start
/etc/init.d/snmpd start

No errors are generated. The thing is, on the web console I still see 'Support of SNMP parameters was not compiled in'. So I check the zabbix_server.log.

12797:20090604:155323 **** Enabled features ****
12797:20090604:155323 SNMP monitoring: NO
12797:20090604:155323 WEB monitoring: YES
12797:20090604:155323 Jabber notifications: NO
12797:20090604:155323 ODBC: NO
12797:20090604:155323 IPv6 support: NO
12797:20090604:155323 **************************

That’s weird! I check the config.log file which contains the following SNMP specific lines and looks fine?

SNMP_CFLAGS=' -I/usr/include/rpm -I. -I/usr/include'
SNMP_CPPFLAGS=''
SNMP_LDFLAGS=' -L/usr/lib -lnetsnmp -lcrypto -lm -L/usr/lib -lwrap -lcrypto'
SNMP_LIBS='-lnetsnmp '

#define HAVE_SNMP_SESSION_LOCALNAME 1
#define HAVE_NETSNMP 1
#define HAVE_SNMP 1
#define SNMP_NO_DEBUGGING

I’m stumped. Could it be a problem with 'make' or 'install'? Am I being a complete idiot. Hope someone can help.

Nasso

[MrKen]

As well as net-snmp and net-snmp-devel, you probably need net-snmp-utils and net-snmp-libs.

MrKen

[caarts]

I have several Suse 9.1/3 and 10.0 servers and they all give trouble installing/upgrading Zabbix . Upgrading from older versions to even 1.4.6 or 1.6.4 are problematic. net snmp/mysql libraries etc etc
Make sure you also have mysql-devel package installed, I am going to upgrade to suse 10.1 and see what goes.

[troffasky]

/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start
/etc/init.d/mysql start
/etc/init.d/snmpd start

Check where 'make install' has put the Zabbix binaries and look at that init script to see what its $PATH is. It may even be hard coded. I suspect the init script is calling an old Zabbix binary, hence it not reflecting the configure options you selected. Compare the file size/timestamp on the zabbix binaries in the build directory and in the path. You could even md5sum them to see if they differ.

Some commands you may find useful:

which zabbix

chkdupexe | grep zabbix

md5sum filename

[Nasso]

SOLVED! Trouble enabling SNMP monitoring

Thank you all for the help! troffasky takes the prize with his post.

Looks like the binaries weren't being written to my binaries folder /opt/zabbix/bin. They were being written to the old location