X4100 snmp kills server

From: Mike Brodbelt (mike@coruscant.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 08:03:13 EDT


Hi,

I'm looking at setting up better monitoring on our front end hardware,
and wanted to look at using Cacti for graphing. As a part of this, I've
installed the Sun NET-SNMP packages on one of our servers (an X4100) to
test. I installed the following packages:-

SUNWsmagt
SUNWsmmgr
SUNWsmcmd
SUNWsmdoc

I then started the service in the recommended way (/etc/init.d.init.sma
start) in its default configuration, and the server is no longer happy
at all.

Attempting to start any process results in:-

bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

My current root shell on the machine is sluggish but working, so I took
the machine out of our load-balanced configuration. Looking at the
number of processes (using echo * in /proc) shows only about 40 running,
and the contents of the /var/log/snmpd.log file is:-

seaproxy_sendReq: SEA Master Agent not responding
Creating directory: /var/sma_snmp
NET-SNMP version 5.0.9

Any ideas? I'd like to be able to recover this without rebooting, and
also to understand what the problem is and why it's occurred, but my
tools are limited to bash builtin commands right now....

Mike
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