In regard to this, the problem is not Observium, nor is it the version of SNMP queries you are doing. Rather, the problem is the SNMP daemon that is running on the AIX platform.
For example, on most linux/BSD boxen, one can query and receive a lot of information. VMware ESXi has an underlying linux/BSD component. However, VMware have substantially crippled the SNMP daemon on that implementation such that it only provides very limited data in replies to SNMP gets. Of course, because they want you to buy the whole vSphere package so you’ll get the information through that instead.
You will find this to be similarly true depending upon whatever devices you’re polling. Observium is only able to display information that the SNMP daemon on the remote box provides. If that SNMP daemon doesn’t provide it, then Observium can’t show it.
…Ron
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of FalkE Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:00 AM To: observium@observium.org Subject: [Observium] SNMP Query AIX Host
Hello everybody,
I'm exploring Observium for a few days now and I really like it!
I've added some Linux hosts using SNMP and it works like a charm.
However, in conjuntion with IBM AIX, I got some problems:
Using SNMP, I only get very basic information about OS level and network interfaces. There is no data about cpu, memory and storage usage.
I'm using SNMPv1 for now. Could this be the problem? Is some data only available for v2c and v3?
If so, can someone give me a sample configuration for SNMPv2c or SNMPv3 on AIX?
Kind regards,
Manuel