Re: Excluding ARP entries

Timo Schoeler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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thus Dave Shield spake:
> On 26 January 2011 10:35, Timo Schoeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> After Wes mentioned VACM, I tried to exclude the OIDs that I thought to
>> be source of the problem from being polled via SNMP.
>>
>> However, it didn't solve the problem. Not active polling by another host
>> via SNMP creates the load spikes, but net-snmpd itself. It just needs to
>> run and the load goes up through the roof.
> 
> One other option might be to disable the whole ARP table module at
> runtime, by adding "-I-at" to the agent startup flags.

Hm, that doesn't work for me -- maybe it's due to compile time options
during RPM creation. If I find some spare time, I'll build it from
source later.

>> I now use munin as an alternative monitoring solution.
> 
> If you've got a solution that works for you, then great.

Honestly, I don't like swapping stuff just to solve a problem I got with
element A, and fix it using element B...

> I just mention this in case anyone else runs into a similar situation.
> 
> Dave

Timo
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