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  • Daniel4711
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2014
    • 126

    #1

    SNMP Service on Client stops working after approximate 24h

    Hi all, I have a Linux spam filter here where the SNMP service crashes at regular intervals (about 1x per day).
    In my opinion there are not too many items and the polling interval is not too short.
    1x 1min
    22x 2min
    2x 3min
    32x 5min
    8x 10min
    1x 1h

    I have already corrected the time interval of the items and also already performed tests with the bulk queries.
    The SNMP service is no longer accessible after about a day.
    The service must then be restarted on the appliance.

    We don't have root access on the appliance and I hope someone else has a hint for me and the appliance support.

    Details: Zabbix 5.4, SNMP 2c
  • Daniel4711
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2014
    • 126

    #2
    Of course I have contacted the support.
    But they don't seem to have any further ideas either.
    If you do some research, a crash of the Linux SNMP service is not uncommon when it is monitored or queried by the monitoring system.
    Mostly without a solution.
    I will ask the support again.

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    • Daniel4711
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2014
      • 126

      #3
      Hello again,

      the Support would like to know if Zabbix makes the queries via snmpget or snmpwalk.
      I could not find any info here unfortunately.
      If I see it correctly, zabbix uses the SNMP functions of the Linux system (Debian 10 for me).
      I could not find a logfile here.

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      • markfree
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2019
        • 868

        #4
        Originally posted by Daniel4711
        Hello again,

        the Support would like to know if Zabbix makes the queries via snmpget or snmpwalk.
        I could not find any info here unfortunately.
        If I see it correctly, zabbix uses the SNMP functions of the Linux system (Debian 10 for me).
        I could not find a logfile here.


        Zabbix uses either SNMP GetRequest and GetBulkRequest, so, it uses SNMP Get and Walk.

        SNMP documentation describes
        technical issue that not all devices are capable of returning 128 values per request
        You could check your host SNMP agent capabilities.

        Zabbix also offer a setting:
        since Zabbix 2.4 there is a “Use bulk requests” setting for each interface that allows to disable bulk requests for that device.
        You can verify SNMP Internal workings here.

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        • cyber
          Senior Member
          Zabbix Certified SpecialistZabbix Certified Professional
          • Dec 2006
          • 4807

          #5
          That spam filter thingie is an appliance? And you have support for it... why does support not resolve the issue of that snmp service crashes?
          From here it does not really look like a Zabbix issue......

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