ERROR: running table : Received noSuchName(2) error-status aterror-index 32.

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:08 +0200, Patrick Proy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a known issue of process check. 
> The script does : 
> 1) Get the snmp table with index and description
> 2) Match with the processes 
> 3) Get the status of the selected processes
> 
> I've done it like this because it takes a lot of time (and ressources on the
> remote host) to get the whole process table.
> 
> Problem : if a process on the remote host die at step 2, then the index
> won't be valid and you will get an error at step 3....
> 
> I've added a "-g" option wich gets the entire table at step 1 : it can help,
> but in case processes are dying/respawning very fast the problem will still
> be here.

Thanks for the prompt and detailed reply. I appreciate it. I'll try -g.

Have you considered using:

host.hrSystem.hrSystemProcesses.0 ?

This seems to report a process count, but I'm thinking you discounted
this for some reason, so am interested if that's the case - was it to do
with dealing with multiprocessors?

cheers

jamie

> 
> Patrick
> nagios AT proy dot org
> 
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Jamie Baddeley [mailto:jamie.baddeley at vpc.co.nz] 
> Envoyé : mardi 28 juin 2005 21:58
> À : Patrick Proy
> Cc : nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Objet : ERROR: running table : Received noSuchName(2) error-status
> aterror-index 32.
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> I'm using your check_snmp_process.pl to do some process count checking on a
> variety of Linux hosts.
> 
> >From time to time I get the error reponse shown above. In fact the
> error-index can change (32,46, 14,42,16 etc)
> 
> I'm using the latest versions dl'ed from SF.
> 
> These plugins are running on a RH EL3 system that has plenty of
> ram/processor.
> 
> Admittedly I've only got one out of 10 hosts I'm monitoring
> complaining.	
> The host in question is running net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.15 (Redhat) and
> 2.4-21 kernel.
> 
> Have you seen similar compaints? Is there a workaround (that doesn't involve
> me upgrading the far end system)?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> jamie
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Jamie Baddeley <jamie.baddeley at vpc.co.nz>
ViewPoint Consulting Ltd



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