Re: [cricket-users] Collector, DNS & resolving IP addresses

From: Jason Tonkin (jtonkin@dogbert.linz.govt.nz)
Date: Mon Sep 27 1999 - 21:18:08 PDT


From: Jason Tonkin <jtonkin@dogbert.linz.govt.nz>

Hi Jennifer

I'm seeing the same problem on an UltraII running
Solaris 2.6 with all recommended patches installed.

Anyone have any ideas?

regards

Jason Tonkin
Unix Systems Administrator
Land Information New Zealand
http://www.linz.govt.nz jtonkin@dogbert.linz.govt.nz

Jennifer.Hayes@det.nsw.edu.au wrote:
>
> From: Jennifer.Hayes@det.nsw.edu.au
>
> I am setting up Cricket (latest version) on an Alphaserver DS20 running
> Digital UNIX V4.0F.
>
> perl5.005_03
> rrdtool-1.0.4
> SNMP_Session-0.72
> cricket-0_70
>
> A compile of the config tree worked okay but when collector was first run we got
> errors that the 'router name' could not be resolved to the IP address. As per an
> earlier suggestion in these archives we added the IP address to /etc/hosts and
> checked the DNS forward / rev were okay.
>
> # nslookup isbr22
> Server: watt.isd.tafensw.EDU.AU
> Address: 153.107.23.1
>
> Name: isbr22.schools.nsw.EDU.AU
> Address: 10.23.254.250
> Aliases: isbr22.isd.tafensw.EDU.AU
>
> After doing another compile and re-running collector the following errors are
> displayed:
>
> [28-Sep-1999 12:30:05 ] Starting collector: Cricket version 0.70 ( Wed Aug 11 11
> :33:37 PDT 1999 )
> [28-Sep-1999 12:30:05*] Variable expansion uses undefined variable: interface-na
> me.
> [28-Sep-1999 12:30:05*] Variable expansion uses undefined variable: interface-na
> me.
> [28-Sep-1999 12:30:05 ] Walking ifDescr for isbr22.schools.nsw.EDU.AU:161 to res
> olve interface-name mapping
> [28-Sep-1999 12:30:05*] Failed to map instance for 0. Instance is now set to not
> hing.
> [28-Sep-1999 12:30:05*] Received SNMP response with error code noSuchName
> [28-Sep-1999 12:30:05 ] Retrieved data for 0 (): U,U,U,U,U,U
> [28-Sep-1999 12:30:05 ] Some data is missing for 0 ().
>
> Any suggestions - are we missing something in setting up the 'interface-name'??
>
>

-- 
Jason Tonkin
Unix Systems Adminstrator
Land Information New Zealand
http://www.linz.govt.nz  jtonkin@linz.govt.nz
Phone (04)4600174 (025)811382 Fax (04)4600166

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