restart the snmp daemon with cron

Putting "bigstart restart snmpd" into crontab should work for periodically bouncing the snmp service, but that configuration may not survive an upgrade or hotfix (plus it shouldn't be dying in the first place). I would open a support case with F5 to see if they can tell what may be causing the snmp service to hang up.

 

 

Denny

Hello,

 

 

we dont have any support left on our bigips.

 

In a active/passive Setup, do I have to only create the conrjob on the active bigip?

 

 

greetings

No that won't sync so you'll need to do it on both.

 

 

Denny

Hi,

 

 

i did put the below line into the crontab, but thre service didnt got restarted:

 

 

1 1 * * * * bigstart restart snmpd

 

 

 

I can see there are more than one snmpd, do I have to restart all of them?

 

 

bigstart status

 

alertd run (pid 808) 186 days

 

bcm56xxd run (pid 814) 186 days

 

big3d run (pid 810) 186 days

 

big3dshim run (pid 811) 186 days

 

bigd run (pid 30817) 51 minutes, 1771 restarts

 

bigdbd run (pid 816) 186 days

 

bigsnmpd run (pid 19535) 5 minutes, 4 starts

 

chmand run (pid 817) 186 days

 

cssd run (pid 832) 186 days

 

eventd run (pid 827) 186 days

 

fpdd run (pid 818) 186 days

 

lacpd run (pid 819) 186 days

 

mcpd run (pid 820) 186 days

 

nokiasnmpd down 4 minutes

 

radvd down 186 days

 

rmonsnmpd run (pid 19543) 5 minutes, 4 starts

 

snmpd run (pid 19476) 5 minutes, 4 starts

 

sod run (pid 831) 186 days

 

statsd run (pid 821) 186 days

 

stpd run (pid 822) 186 days

 

syscalld run (pid 823) 186 days

 

tamd run (pid 1273) 186 days, 1 start

 

tmm run (pid 807) 186 days

 

tmrouted run (pid 824) 186 days

 

tmsnmpd run (pid 19553) 5 minutes, 4 starts

 

tomcat4 run (pid 25662) 9 hours, 186 starts

 

zebosd down 186 days

 

 

cheers

 

 

Heiko

Hello,

 

did I edit the wrong file?

 

I do a "crontab -e".

 

when I do a "crontab -l" i get:

 

DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.

 

(/tmp/crontab.23492 installed on Mon Feb 9 13:57:45 2009)

 

(Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)

 

1 1 * * * * /usr/bin/bigstart restart snmpd

 

1-59/30 * * * * /usr/bin/diskmonitor

 

 

what is meant by "edit the master"?

 

I ask because the snmpd hasnt got restarted, but it should been at 1.10h tonight

 

thx

 

Heiko

use -l flag to view current entries, -e flag to edit the master (root crontab file) in vi

ah, ic.

 

thats what I did, "crontab -e".

 

 

now the question remains why the snmpd didnt got restarted