Conference molar::snmp

284.0. "another snmp_pe : Unable to aquire host information" by GIDDAY::CHONG (Andrew Chong - Sydney CSC) Fri Mar 14 1997 00:52

Customer uses Common_agent on Digital Unix V3.2G.
According to him he has to use the common agent because System Monitor requires
it. 

This was working fine until one day snmp_pe failed to start (for reasons
    unknown ).

The entry in deamon.log:

Mar 14 10:47:35 cfaxp snmp_pe?1286U: M215 - Unable to acquire host information
Error 0 occurred.', errno = 22--unrecoverable: snmp_pe exiting

If he uses snmpsetup to start the deamon, then deamon.log also containd other
components :

Mar 14 10:57:15 cfaxp mold?1402U: mold (V1.10) initialization complete
Mar 14 10:57:15 cfaxp internet_mom?1411U: internet_mom - Initialization
complete...
Mar 14 10:57:15 cfaxp fddi_mom?1414U: fddi_mom - Initialization complete...
Mar 14 10:57:16 cfaxp trn_mom?1417U: TRN_MOM: No token ring interface -trn_mom
exiting
Mar 14 10:57:16 cfaxp snmp_pe?1420U: M215 - Unable to acquire host information
Error 0 occurred.', errno = 22--unrecoverable: snmp_pe exiting


I have read entry 265.* . His host name is not > 32 bytes. The host name is 
cfaxp.au.ibm.com. 

Advise on what else to look for would be greatly appreciated. 

Andrew
    
              

a) You customer should be using snmpd, not common agent (snmp_pe).
   Please ask in NOTED::NETVIEW if there is really any requirement for
   Common Agent when using system monitor.  I believe the answer is no.

b) snmp_pe is reporting invalid argument (errno=22) to the gethostbyname()
   call.  This arument is the result of a gethostname() call.

   This same value is returned by the "hostname" command.

   So find out what is returned by hostname.  It's probably bogus.
  
Mike   

System Monitor is not a part of NetView.  It is an agent extension for
system monitoring, sold on its own.  I believe that IBM built it with
Common Agent.  Presumably IBM should be upgrading it to use eSNMP.

Is the support request here coming from IBM?