[j-nsp] SNMP polling issue MX

[Clarke Morledge]

It looks like there were possibly multiple mib2d process bugs.   In our 
case, restarting mib2d did not always resolve the issue.

The good news is that it does look like 10.2R3 fixes the mib2d issues we 
were experiencing.  We've been running 10.2R3 (or a derivative) for 
several weeks and SNMP appears to be stable.

Clarke Morledge
College of William and Mary
Information Technology - Network Engineering
Jones Hall (Room 18)
Williamsburg VA 23187


On Sunday, Richard said:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 04:14:04PM +0300, Tarique A. Nalkhande - BMC wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Even we faced a similar problem on our MX's running 10.2R3. Further
>> findings revealed memory leak bug for mib2d process.. restarting mib2d
>> fixed it.
>> Juniper is probably tracking it through some internal PR, the
>> committed release is 10.2R3 which doesn't look likely.
>
> Hrmm supposedly the mib2d memory leak is fixed was 10.2R3, but we never
> actually tested it, we just skipped straight ahead to 10.3R2 on new
> deployments (as there were many other SNMP bugs still not fixed in 10.2
> at the time). A quick and dirty workaround for the memory leak issue is
> to periodically restart the mib2d process, which you can do with an
> event script like so:
>
> event-options {
>    generate-event {
>        /* Adjust ttimer as necessary based on memory consumption */
>        restart-mib2d time-interval 604800;
>    }
>    policy restart-mib2d {
>        events restart-mib2d;
>        /* Adjust this too, to something slightly less than above */
>        within 600000 {
>            not events restart-mib2d;
>        }
>        then {
>            event-script restart-mib2d;
>        }
>    }
> }
>
> /var/db/scripts/op/restart-mib2d.slax:
>
> version 1.0;
> ns junos = "http://xml.juniper.net/junos/*/junos";
> ns xnm = "http://xml.juniper.net/xnm/1.1/xnm";
> ns jcs = "http://xml.juniper.net/junos/commit-scripts/1.0";
> import "../import/junos.xsl";
>
> match / {
>    <op-script-results> {
>        var $restart-mib2d = {
>            <command> "restart mib-process gracefully";
>        }
>        var $result = jcs:invoke($restart-mib2d);
>    }
> }
>
> -- 
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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