[cisco-voip] CUCM 7.0 SNMP Master Agent

[Andre Beck]

Hi,

I'm currently evaluating CUCM 7.0 (in a VM on VMWare ESX) and found an
issue that strikes in either case of installation I've tried:

a) Fresh install without anything special;
b) Installing 5.0(4), upgrading to 5.1(3d), recovering the DRF backup
   from our current productive CCM running on that release, then
   upgrading to 7.0(1), and doing some license magic to actually
   get something that can be evaluated.

Either way, I end up with a (virtual) box that constantly complains it
cannot start the SNMP Master Agent, which is true: It can't. The reason
is that 161/udp is already bound, apparently by the NET-SNMP daemon that
comes with the OS. I don't know anything on how the SNMP Master Agent
and the load of subagents are actually implemented and whether they are
supposed to integrate with the OS agent or replace it. And Cisco doesn't
want me to look, with all that lockdown they do on the appliance platform.

So supposedly no SNMP master agent running with the configured communities.
But fooling around with community public, you get an answer from what *is*
running:

# snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 192.168.111.1 .
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux PHONY 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: NET-SNMP-MIB::netSnmpAgentOIDs.10
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (7061047) 19:36:50.47
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: Root <root at localhost> (configure /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf)
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: PHONY
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: Unknown (edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf)
[...]

I haven't found anything related in either Bug Toolkit, Google or this
ML's archives. Anyone seen this with 7.0? Is this by any chance a
VMware-specific bug that won't strike when I'm actually going to upgrade
the real iron?

I don't actually need SNMP on the CCM, but the resulting alarms of a
supposedly critical service beeing down are annoying.

TIA,
Andre.
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