[cisco-voip] CUCM 7.0 SNMP Master Agent

[Erik Goppel]

Andre,
I have exactly the same issue, however my CUCM is running in VMware Server
2.0
I have a CUCM7.0 running on a 7835, and that doesn`t show the problem, so
probably a vm issue.

Erik

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Andre Beck <cisco-voip at ibh.net> wrote:

> 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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>    on the Internet and let the secret services do the hard work.
>
> -> Andre Beck    +++ ABP-RIPE +++      IBH IT-Service GmbH, Dresden <-
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