Check_ifstatus / SNMP.pm problems

Nolan Martin Nolan.Martin at co.travis.tx.us
Fri Oct 4 23:29:29 CEST 2002


Well, okay, I did confuse SNMP.pm for the Net::SNMP perl module.  :)

I would say this was largely because the first time I ran a
check_ifstatus, it complained about not having the SNMP.pm in its @INC
path....  Once I adjusted it so that it was in its path, that error went
away.  I then received the session error message....

But, as I mentioned, based on one of your postings in the archives, I
separately attempted to install the Net::SNMP through the CPAN shell and
received a response that Net::SNMP is up to date ( perl -MCPAN -e
"install Net::SNMP").  So, if I understand correctly, Net::SNMP is
installed on the machine.

Thoughts or suggestions as to what I am missing or misunderstanding? 
Thanks for your response.

Nolan


>>> Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> 10/04/02 02:38PM >>>
Ummm yes and no :)

NET-SNMP package includes the snmp command line utilities used by 
check_snmp and the SNMP.pm module.

check_ifstatus and friends require Net::SNMP module -which is an all
perl 
snmp manager library implementation.

the names are confusing similar...  the perl modules names are actually

different.

-sg

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Nolan Martin wrote:

> I am trying to get check_ifstatus going and am having some
difficulties
> getting NET-SNMP and the Perl SNMP module configured properly.  
> 
> I have installed both NET-SNMP and the SNMP.pm, but I still receive
the
> following error message, when I attempt to run the check_ifstatus
> command from the nagios libexec directory to test it:
> 
> # ./check_ifstatus -H 10.5.1.11
> Can't locate object method "session" via package "Net::SNMP"
(perhaps
> you forgot to load "Net::SNMP"?) at ./check_ifstatus line 128.
> 
> As I mentioned, I installed NET-SNMP and installed the SNMP perl
module
> following the instructions that accompany both of those components. 
I
> also followed Subhendu Ghosh's postings from August 21st (RE:
> [Nagios-users] SNMP.pm Solution/problem) and attempted to install
> again/verify my perl module installation by installing it using the
CPAN
> shell.  That attempt returns that Net::SNMP is up to date.
> 
> Obviously, I missed some step or have failed to do some
configuration. 
> Any assistance would be appreciated. 
> 
> My system is Red Hat 7.3.  I am running Perl 5.6.1, although there
> appears to be an existing 5.6.0 installation as well.  I am using
the
> Nagios Plugins v1.3 Beta1 plugins and the latest version of Net-SNMP
> 5.0.5 (released 10/1/2002)
> 
> Here are the steps I went through.
> 
> INSTALLED NET-SNMP
> * Downloaded and extracted Net-SNMP 5.0.5
> * ./configure
> * make
> * umask 022
> * make install
> 
> INSTALLED / VERIFIED PERL SNMP MODULE
> * From the perl subdirectory of the extracted NET-SNMP directory,
ran: 
> perl Makefile.PL
> * make
> * make test
> * make install
> * Since the SNMP.pm was installed to
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux, but my understanding was
that
> NET-SNMP actually looks for it under a directory named Net, I created
a
> directory named Net and copied SNMP.pm to that folder as well. 
> * Executing the check_ifstatus now finds the SNMP.pm in its included
> paths, but produces the session error message
> * Tried to install again/verify the SNMP.pm installation by
installing
> it through the CPAN shell:
> perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::SNMP" - That attempt returns that
> Net::SNMP is up to date.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
> 
> Nolan
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
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