Yea, the `main` Docker image has issues with being behind release, there's
an open PR to fix it.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 7:38 AM Elliott Balsley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Nice, that sounds like it might fix it. I’m running the docker image
> prom/snmp-agent:main which was published 2 days ago. But I don’t know which
> commit that refers to.
>
> I read the description of this new patch:
>  first attempt to match the lookup node so that the OID matches that of
> the metric in all but the last branch.
> In case no match is found, it reverts to the old behavior.
>
> Would it be better to attempt this recursively, so if it fails to find the
> name in the last branch, then it looks one branch up, and so on? I’m
> curious, if it were implemented that way, would there ever be a need to
> specify multiple MIBDIRS?
>
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 21:43 Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Have you updated your generator recently? We added a patch that tries to
>> use OIDs closer to the original index first.
>>
>> See: https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/pull/828
>>
>> There's also now support for multiple files in the exporter, as well as
>> different input filenames in the generator. You could do something like
>> this:
>>
>> MIBDIRS="mibs/base:mibs/vendorA"
>> generator --generator-path="generator-vendorA.yml" 
>> --output-path="snmp-vendorA.yml"
>> MIBDIRS="mibs/base:mibs/vendorB"
>> generator --generator-path="generator-vendorB.yml" 
>> --output-path="snmp-vendorB.yml"
>> snmp_exporer --config.file="snmp-*.yml"
>>
>> Longer-term, I want to add the ability to specify MIBDIRS pre module in
>> the generator. This way you can put the conflicting MIBs in different dirs
>> and still have one config.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 4:18 AM 'Elliott Balsley' via Prometheus Users <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Aha!  I found the problem by looking closer at the generated snmp.yml.
>>> This PDU manufacturer OID is *1418*.  I have another MIB installed from
>>> a different manufacturer *1718* which also has an OID called
>>> outletName.  So the generator config I shared before actually produces
>>> incorrect snmp.yml as below.  The solution I found is to be explicit in the
>>> lookup like this:
>>> lookups:
>>> - source_indexes: [outletIndex]
>>> lookup: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1418.6.5.1.2
>>>
>>> Is this expected behavior and is there a better way to handle it?
>>>
>>> Incorrect snmp.yml:
>>> - name: outletStatus
>>> oid: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1418.6.5.1.6
>>> type: gauge
>>> help: ' - 1.3.6.1.4.1.1418.6.5.1.6'
>>> indexes:
>>> - labelname: outletIndex
>>> type: gauge
>>> lookups:
>>> - labels:
>>> - outletIndex
>>> labelname: outletName
>>> oid: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1718.3.2.3.1.3
>>> type: DisplayString
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 6:41 PM 'Elliott Balsley' via Prometheus Users <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to configure snmp-exporter with a PDU, using a lookup to
>>>> label each outlet with its human-readable name (outletName) by referencing
>>>> its outletIndex.  But when I try to do this, the outletName label is an
>>>> empty string.  Is there something wrong with my generator config?  Example:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *    walk:      - 1.3.6.1.4.1.1418.6.5    lookups:      -
>>>> source_indexes: [outletIndex]        lookup: outletName*
>>>>
>>>> This is how the metrics look.
>>>> *outletStatus{outletIndex="0",outletName=""} 1*
>>>>
>>>> Without any lookups, the outletName appears correct:
>>>> *outletName{outletIndex="0",outletName="1-MacStudio"} 1*
>>>>
>>>> Below is how the raw SNMP data looks:
>>>>
>>>> % snmptable -v2c -c netflixsnmp -m IBOOTPDU-MIB 10.37.155.163
>>>> 1.3.6.1.4.1.1418.6.5
>>>> SNMP table: IBOOTPDU-MIB::outletTable
>>>>
>>>>  outletIndex    outletName outletInitialState outletCycleTime
>>>> outletControl outletStatus outletActualStatus
>>>>            1   1-MacStudio               last              10
>>>>  on           on                 on
>>>>            2     2-Mezzo-1               last              10
>>>>  on           on                 on
>>>>            3 3-UltraStudio               last              10
>>>>  on           on                 on
>>>>            4       4-MP-60               last              10
>>>>  on           on                 on
>>>>            5     5-Mezzo-2               last              10
>>>>  on           on                 on
>>>>            6    6-Core110f               last              10
>>>>  on           on                 on
>>>>            7      Outlet-7               last              10
>>>>  on           on                 on
>>>>            8        8-Roku               last              10
>>>> cycle           on                 on
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if this matters but I noticed the outletIndex values start
>>>> at 1, while the OID table indexes start at 0.  Could that be the problem
>>>> here?
>>>> I've attached the MIB.  I also opened a Github issue with more details
>>>> in case this is a bug:
>>>> https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/issues/1039
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