Hi, Im trying to monitor a SCO 5 server via SNMP, I have enabled the
hostmib and normally it works perfect, but every night it starts
failling to send the processorload:

hrProcessorLoad.11 --> .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.3.1.2.11
hrProcessorLoad.12 --> .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.3.1.2.12

It also generates a log file with the following info on it:

Sep* 6 00:17:35 hostname hostmib: error executing
"getDynamicProcessorData 12 load": can't use non-numeric string as
operand of "-"******************************
Sep* 6 00:17:35 hostname hostmib: error executing
"getDynamicProcessorData 11 load": can't use non-numeric string as
operand of "-"*

This lines are repeated a lot of times, then it starts working again..
anyone knows what may be the problem? I know that the server has cron
job that restarts it at 00:35 every night but this is happening at
00:17

Sorry for my english and thanks.***********************

On 7 Sep 2004 04:49:18 -0700, roncelinus@hotmail.com (Juanjo) wrote:

>Hi, Im trying to monitor a SCO 5 server via SNMP, I have enabled the
>hostmib and normally it works perfect, but every night it starts
>failling to send the processorload:
>
>hrProcessorLoad.11 --> .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.3.1.2.11
>hrProcessorLoad.12 --> .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.3.1.2.12
>
>It also generates a log file with the following info on it:
>
>Sep* 6 00:17:35 hostname hostmib: error executing
>"getDynamicProcessorData 12 load": can't use non-numeric string as
>operand of "-"******************************
>Sep* 6 00:17:35 hostname hostmib: error executing
>"getDynamicProcessorData 11 load": can't use non-numeric string as
>operand of "-"*
>
>This lines are repeated a lot of times, then it starts working again..
>anyone knows what may be the problem? I know that the server has cron
>job that restarts it at 00:35 every night but this is happening at
>00:17
>
>Sorry for my english and thanks.

For SNMP to work with hostmib, you need to have snmpd and smuxtcl
running. See:
http://www.LearnByDestroying.com/sco/snmp_install.txt
From the looks of the above errors, it appears that smuxtcl is
running, but snmpd is not. However, I'm guessing. Something is
killing snmpd and my guess is that it has to do with a cron job of
some sorts. You should not need to reboot your computer nightly as my
boxes stay up for months without a reboot. My guess is that the
reboot process is not quite synchronized with the SNMP data collection
and needs to be either eliminated or repaired. Turn on CRONLOG
temporarily and compare the times of the errors with what cron is
doing.





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