Hi Lane,

Obviously Observium will make a few hundred SNMP queries to every monitored device, in rapid succession, as you obviously want your poller to be as fast as possible.

As to why you're not seeing it, that's most likely because you're not using a packet sniffer and have snmpd configured differently on some machines.

Tom

On 21/11/2014 17:20, Lane Eckley wrote:

Hi Guys,

On a limited number of CentOS & Ubuntu machines we are monitoring with Observium we are seeing dozens of SNMP queries from Observium in a very short window (10-20 seconds).

Snip of the logs from /var/logs/messages

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:55776->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

We are trying to understand why Observium would be sending so many queries back to back as well as why we are seeing this on some machines, but not others.

Thanks!

-Lane
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