Hi Jaap, this is most probably a change in default behaviou of the net-snmp library. I am ccing net-snmp maintainers.
Ondrej On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Jaap Winius <jwin...@umrk.nl> wrote: > Package: php5-snmp > Version: 5.4.4-14 > > Regarding my last message, the errors about a missing pam_auth.so had > nothing to do with this problem. That file is found in php5-auth-pam, which > is not in wheezy. Apparently it was still present, but not functioning > properly, no doubt due to some missing dependencies, so removing that > package was the fix. > > Otherwise I've discovered the cause of the original problem -- the reason > for this bug report -- and I figure it must be related to php5-snmp. > > What I found was that the php scripts that Cacti uses to query the localhost > are now being sent using IPv6 instead of IPv4 as before. My local snmp > daemon was listening on IPv6, but unfortunately I had neglected to include a > directive for 'rocommunity6' set to 'public', so that's why in my case Cacti > stopped recording localhost information after the upgrade from squeeze. > > Cacti had also stopped recording information about my workstations, but this > was for a different reason. In this case, php5-snmp 5.4.4-14 seems to have > changed how Cacti's hostname field in its device descriptions is allowed to > be formatted. Specifically, I had previously been adding hostnames with the > format "udp6:host.domain.tld" so that they would only be contacted via IPv6. > However, with the new version of php5-snmp that format no longer works and I > must omit the 'udp6:' part. That certainly doesn't work on the Debian > squeeze machines with Cacti that I still have running. > > I'm still pretty sure this has to do with the upgrade to php5-snmp 5.4.4-14, > because the temporary downgrade to 5.3.3 that I performed last Monday did > fix things for a while and I have about six hours of Cacti data to prove it > (for both the localhost and the workstations). Now, so far I've managed to > get everything working again because all of the hosts and services that I > monitor with Cacti are also available via IPv6, but I'm not sure what I > would do to monitor an IPv4-only host, or an IPv6-capable host with an snmp > daemon that does not support IPv6. > > Cheers, > > Jaap -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
