check_snmp and timeout]

[Subhendu Ghosh]

This is a bug - 

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=683235&group_id=29880&atid=397597

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Fredrik Wänglund wrote:

> 
> 
> OK, 10.20.30.40 is a non-existing host just to show how it looks when 
> check_snmp times out.
> What I wanted to show was that regardless of whether i have '-t 30' or 
> not the plugin exits
> after 6 seconds with the message;
> 
> SNMP problem - No data recieved from host
> CMD: /usr/bin/snmpget -m NONE -v 1 -c abc 10.20.30.40:161  1.2
> 
> If the CMD:... is the complete commandline the plugin calls, then it 
> look like
> the timeoutvalue is simply ignored by the plugin.
> 
> 
> /FredrikW
> 
> 
> 
> Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> 
> >Dear Sir,
> >
> >I am writing to thank you for your letter and suggest you need to make a
> >better case for the check_snmp plugin being at fault.
> >
> >Does tcpdump/tethereal/ethereal host 10.20.30.40 and port 161 show a
> >reply from the host, inside the timeout period ?
> >
> >Here's an example of what I mean (neg example, wrong community)
> >
> >tsitc> tcpdump host so-cbr and port 161
> >tcpdump: listening on fxp0
> >20:54:11.739374 tsitc.aipo.gov.au.2613 >
> >so-cbr.aipo.gov.au.snmp:  GetRequest(28)  system.sysDescr.0
> >20:54:12.749385 tsitc.aipo.gov.au.2613 >
> >so-cbr.aipo.gov.au.snmp:  GetRequest(28)  system.sysDescr.0
> >20:54:13.759351 tsitc.aipo.gov.au.2613 >
> >so-cbr.aipo.gov.au.snmp:  GetRequest(28)  system.sysDescr.0
> >20:54:14.769373 tsitc.aipo.gov.au.2613 >
> >so-cbr.aipo.gov.au.snmp:  GetRequest(28)  system.sysDescr.0
> >20:54:15.779303 tsitc.aipo.gov.au.2613 >
> >so-cbr.aipo.gov.au.snmp:  GetRequest(28)  system.sysDescr.0
> >20:54:16.789307 tsitc.aipo.gov.au.2613 >
> >so-cbr.aipo.gov.au.snmp:  GetRequest(28)  system.sysDescr.0
> >^C
> >12264 packets received by filter
> >0 packets dropped by kernel
> >
> >In other words, there was (in this case) no response.
> >
> >Yours sincerely.
> > 
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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