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From: Pathiakis, Paul [mailto:Paul...@ironmountain.com] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:02 AM To: General OpenNMS Discussion Subject: [opennms-discuss] Debian and SNMPD diskio.c handle

Hi,

I have a bunch of Debian machines that are using SNMPD 5.2.3. That looks to be the most recent version of SNMPD for Debian Etch. So, I'm stuck with it for now. However, snmpd is spitting out a bunch of errors that are of the type:

Snmpd[pid]: diskio.c: don't know how to handle 9 request

Snmpd[pid]: diskio.c: don't know how to handle 10 request

Snmpd[pid]: diskio.c: don't know how to handle 11 request

To syslog and as I've now figured out how to get syslog to log to OpenNMS. (Hooray!)

However, I'd like to learn how to ignore this syslog message type. Actually, I'd like to learn all about looking for strings from syslog so that OpenNMS can be my syslog parser as well. I found "syslog" and "syslog automations" page but I'm having a little trouble understanding as I'm new to this and keep getting dragged off to other things just as I get going on ONMS.

I'd like to perform parsing and escalation/non-escalation on a message:

Actionable message:

"Disk has gone bad"

Informative message:

"Disk is running out of space"

Ignorable message:

Snmpd[pid]: diskio.c: don't know how to handle 11 request

I'm sure that as soon as Debian gets the hooks for these values in their SNMP for diskio everything will be fine.

Thank you for any help,

P.

Paul Pathiakis

UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer

Iron Mountain Digital

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