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arew264

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From: Friendswood, Texas, US

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MRTG Installation Issue -- Probably a Noob Mistake

I'm trying to get MRTG to work, and I have installed the package and am trying to create a config using:

cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /home/httpd/mrtg' --global 'Options[_]: bits,growright' --output /etc/mrtg.cfg localhost

It returns an error that there was no snmp response:

SNMP Error:
no response received
SNMPv1_Session (remote host: "localhost" [127.0.0.1].161)
                  community: "public"
                 request ID: -127008946
                PDU bufsize: 8000 bytes
                    timeout: 2s
                    retries: 5
                    backoff: 1)
at /usr/bin/../lib/mrtg2/SNMP_util.pm line 627
SNMPWALK Problem for 1.3.6.1.2.1.1 on public@localhost::::::v4only
at /usr/bin/cfgmaker line 918
WARNING: Skipping public@localhost: as no info could be retrieved

Really don't know how to procede from here. Any ideas?

arew264

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From: Friendswood, Texas, US

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Re: MRTG Installation Issue -- Probably a Noob Mistake

Really not seeing the problem, I have net-snmp installed and the snmp daemon is running. I see no configuration options for it, and iptables is not blocking it.

Snarkout

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Re: MRTG Installation Issue -- Probably a Noob Mistake

is public really your community string?

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Snarkout

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Re: MRTG Installation Issue -- Probably a Noob Mistake

Also, what do the two lines in those files that are erroring out reference?

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arew264

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Re: MRTG Installation Issue -- Probably a Noob Mistake

First off...

Community String? What's that?
Sorry if that's a stupid question but I have never seen that before.

Anyway, I'll go look into those files...

This is with the mrtg package in the normal repo by the way.

arew264

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Re: MRTG Installation Issue -- Probably a Noob Mistake

Looked up the documentation for snmpd, configured it, and all is well. Wish the net-snmp package maintainer would put a config file in the package...