Hello,

thank's for your reply.

I did some additional research and found out that the net-snmp daemon seems to support the missing data, but does not support data about network and some other stuff. After I installed net-snmp, Observium was able to get data about CPU and Memory. So I tried to add a "proxy"-rule to my snmpd.conf, so that net-snmp will pass information from the AIX snmp. However, when I include this rule and restart the net-snmp daemon, I get an error on the clientside: *timeout: No Response from proxy*

After this error, the net-snmp daemon crashes. Do you have any idea how I can solve this problem?

Manuel

2015-12-18 16:34 GMT+01:00 Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org:

We do have a /little/ support for AIX, as I recall we could work out its version and a few other things.

As for memory and CPU and the like, this requires the host SNMP agent to support HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, the "standard" for this sort of data.

adam.

On 18/12/2015 15:30:38, Ron Marosko ron@rjr-services.com wrote:

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

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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

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Peter,

This looks very good. As you said, allmost like a Liunx system. Would it be possible, that you give me your snmpd.conf and snmpdv3.conf of one AIX System? I don't know where I have made a mistake in my configuration...

Regards, Manuel

2015-12-21 23:01 GMT+01:00 Peter.Hine@familycourt.gov.au:

Manuel

i don't use net-snmp. I am assuming net-snmp is an RPM ?

I try to use native where possible. The only significant change i have made is use bash v4 over ksh.

thanks

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Adam, "We do have a /little/ support for AIX, as I recall we could work out its version and a few other things.

As for memory and CPU and the like, this requires the host SNMP agent to support HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, the "standard" for this sort of data."

You support SNMP, quite well. If AIX supports it, then you do. Here's what i see (attached). Looks just like a linux box, only fatter and more expensive :_0 (Embedded image moved to file: pic59917.gif)

thanks

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https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-176337

seems a good tute on how to seup the encrypted version

thanks

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