Configuring SNMP discovery

Question

I followed the wiki to configure SNMP but it still does not work:

http://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/index.php/Documentation:SNMP

If I try to run the agent in debug mode I get this error:

Can't open `/etc/ocsinventory-agent'

Answer 1

How do you have install your agent ? On wich OS (if linux wich distribution) ? Wich configuration have you give in the postinstall ?

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version agent OCS-NG_unified_unix_agent_v2.1.1

version ocs server 2.1.1

installed on the server Ubuntu 13.04 raring

ocsinventory-agent.cfg:

basevardir=/var/lib/ocsinventory-agent
ssl=0
debug=1
ca=/etc/ocsinventory-agent
tag=server
server=http://localhost/ocsinventory
logfile=/etc/ocsinventory-agent

I do not remember having done special configuration after installation of the agent, I never worried about this because the server side everything works fine.

Agent on unix server I only have this

Answer 2

Try with other log file, logfile=/var/log/ocsinventory-agent.log.

Is the agent run in the server? if isn't the server option should be diferent

Answer 3

look if the directory /etc/ocsinventory-agent is in 755 for security and look if you execute the agent whith root.

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root@ubuntu:~# ls -l /var/log/ocsinventory-agent
total 0

root@ubuntu:~# ocsinventory-agent
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
Can't open `/var/log/ocsinventory-agent'
etc etc etc

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it's what i said, you have parameter the name of the directory so itt can't work

put a line like

Logfile =/var/log/ocsinventory-agent/ocsinventory-agent.log

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thanks for your patience had until now.

There were two serious errors in the configuration file:

A) the variable logfile was not correct;
b) the server variable must have an address https and not http.

now I have no more errors the agent execution and the log file is written.

Here is the result of the log file:
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Ocsinventory unified agent for UNIX, Linux and MacOSX 2.1.1
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Log system initialised (File)
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] --scan-homedirs missing. Don't scan user directories
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Accountinfo file: /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/https:__localhost_ocsinventory/ocsinv.adm
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] OCS Agent initialised
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Turns hooks on for /etc/ocsinventory-agent/modules.conf
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Ocsinventory unified agent for UNIX, Linux and MacOSX 2.1.1
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Log system initialised (File)
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Ocsinventory unified agent for UNIX, Linux and MacOSX 2.1.1
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Log system initialised (File)
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Calling handlers : `start_handler'
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] [snmp] Calling snmp_start_handler
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug]  - Net::SNMP loaded
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] [download] Calling download_start_handler
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug]  - LWP loaded
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug]  - LWP::Protocol::https loaded
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Compress::Zlib is available.
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] Calling handlers : `prolog_writer'
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] sending XML
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][debug] sending: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<REQUEST>
  <DEVICEID>ubuntu-2014-09-18-15-05-39</DEVICEID>
  <QUERY>PROLOG</QUERY>
</REQUEST>
[Thu Sep 18 15:37:33 2014][error] Cannot establish communication : 500 SSL_ca_file /etc/ocsinventory-agent does not exist

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There is allready a topic on the certificat.

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thanks for everything, I will follow that thread !