Hi all,
I recently switched my Telegraf settings to use SNMP v3 to monitor my firewall.
I can successfully snmpwalk the firewall, but now am not getting any updates to my graphs. If someone can tell me what I’m doing wrong I’d be grateful.
$ cat /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf
# Telegraf Configuration
#
# Telegraf is entirely plugin driven. All metrics are gathered from the
# declared inputs, and sent to the declared outputs.
#
# Plugins must be declared in here to be active.
# To deactivate a plugin, comment out the name and any variables.
#
# Use 'telegraf -config telegraf.conf -test' to see what metrics a config
# file would generate.
#
# Environment variables can be used anywhere in this config file, simply prepend
# them with $. For strings the variable must be within quotes (ie, "$STR_VAR"),
# for numbers and booleans they should be plain (ie, $INT_VAR, $BOOL_VAR)
# Global tags can be specified here in key="value" format.
[global_tags]
# dc = "us-east-1" # will tag all metrics with dc=us-east-1
# rack = "1a"
## Environment variables can be used as tags, and throughout the config file
# user = "$USER"
# Configuration for telegraf agent
[agent]
## Default data collection interval for all inputs
interval = "10s"
## Rounds collection interval to 'interval'
## ie, if interval="10s" then always collect on :00, :10, :20, etc.
round_interval = true
## Telegraf will send metrics to outputs in batches of at most
## metric_batch_size metrics.
## This controls the size of writes that Telegraf sends to output plugins.
metric_batch_size = 1000
## For failed writes, telegraf will cache metric_buffer_limit metrics for each
## output, and will flush this buffer on a successful write. Oldest metrics
## are dropped first when this buffer fills.
## This buffer only fills when writes fail to output plugin(s).
metric_buffer_limit = 10000
## Collection jitter is used to jitter the collection by a random amount.
## Each plugin will sleep for a random time within jitter before collecting.
## This can be used to avoid many plugins querying things like sysfs at the
## same time, which can have a measurable effect on the system.
collection_jitter = "0s"
## Default flushing interval for all outputs. You shouldn't set this below
## interval. Maximum flush_interval will be flush_interval + flush_jitter
flush_interval = "10s"
## Jitter the flush interval by a random amount. This is primarily to avoid
## large write spikes for users running a large number of telegraf instances.
## ie, a jitter of 5s and interval 10s means flushes will happen every 10-15s
flush_jitter = "0s"
## By default or when set to "0s", precision will be set to the same
## timestamp order as the collection interval, with the maximum being 1s.
## ie, when interval = "10s", precision will be "1s"
## when interval = "250ms", precision will be "1ms"
## Precision will NOT be used for service inputs. It is up to each individual
## service input to set the timestamp at the appropriate precision.
## Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s".
precision = ""
## Logging configuration:
## Run telegraf with debug log messages.
debug = false
## Run telegraf in quiet mode (error log messages only).
quiet = false
## Specify the log file name. The empty string means to log to stderr.
logfile = ""
## Override default hostname, if empty use os.Hostname()
hostname = ""
## If set to true, do no set the "host" tag in the telegraf agent.
omit_hostname = false
###############################################################################
# OUTPUT PLUGINS #
###############################################################################
# Configuration for influxdb server to send metrics to
[[outputs.influxdb]]
## The full HTTP or UDP URL for your InfluxDB instance.
##
## Multiple urls can be specified as part of the same cluster,
## this means that only ONE of the urls will be written to each interval.
# urls = ["udp://localhost:8089"] # UDP endpoint example
urls = ["http://localhost:8086"] # required
## The target database for metrics (telegraf will create it if not exists).
database = "telegraf" # required
## Name of existing retention policy to write to. Empty string writes to
## the default retention policy.
retention_policy = ""
## Write consistency (clusters only), can be: "any", "one", "quorum", "all"
write_consistency = "any"
## Write timeout (for the InfluxDB client), formatted as a string.
## If not provided, will default to 5s. 0s means no timeout (not recommended).
timeout = "5s"
username = "admin"
password = "admin123"
## Set the user agent for HTTP POSTs (can be useful for log differentiation)
# user_agent = "telegraf"
## Set UDP payload size, defaults to InfluxDB UDP Client default (512 bytes)
# udp_payload = 512
## Optional SSL Config
# ssl_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
# ssl_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
# ssl_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
## Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
# insecure_skip_verify = false
## HTTP Proxy Config
# http_proxy = "http://corporate.proxy:3128"
## Optional HTTP headers
# http_headers = {"X-Special-Header" = "Special-Value"}
## Compress each HTTP request payload using GZIP.
# content_encoding = "gzip"
###############################################################################
# PROCESSOR PLUGINS #
###############################################################################
# # Print all metrics that pass through this filter.
# [[processors.printer]]
###############################################################################
# AGGREGATOR PLUGINS #
###############################################################################
# # Create aggregate histograms.
# [[aggregators.histogram]]
# ## The period in which to flush the aggregator.
# period = "30s"
#
# ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
# ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
# drop_original = false
#
# ## Example config that aggregates all fields of the metric.
# # [[aggregators.histogram.config]]
# # ## The set of buckets.
# # buckets = [0.0, 15.6, 34.5, 49.1, 71.5, 80.5, 94.5, 100.0]
# # ## The name of metric.
# # measurement_name = "cpu"
#
# ## Example config that aggregates only specific fields of the metric.
# # [[aggregators.histogram.config]]
# # ## The set of buckets.
# # buckets = [0.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0, 40.0, 50.0, 60.0, 70.0, 80.0, 90.0, 100.0]
# # ## The name of metric.
# # measurement_name = "diskio"
# # ## The concrete fields of metric
# # fields = ["io_time", "read_time", "write_time"]
# # Keep the aggregate min/max of each metric passing through.
# [[aggregators.minmax]]
# ## General Aggregator Arguments:
# ## The period on which to flush & clear the aggregator.
# period = "30s"
# ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
# ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
# drop_original = false
###############################################################################
# INPUT PLUGINS #
###############################################################################
# ## SNMPv3 auth parameters
sec_name = "superninjauser"
auth_protocol = "SHA" # Values: "MD5", "SHA", ""
auth_password = "myauthpw"
sec_level = "authPriv" # Values: "noAuthNoPriv", "authNoPriv", "authPriv"
context_name = ""
priv_protocol = "AES" # Values: "DES", "AES", ""
priv_password = "myprivpw"
# Retrieves SNMP values from remote agents
[[inputs.snmp]]
agents = [ "myServersIP:161" ]
## Timeout for each SNMP query.
timeout = "5s"
## Number of retries to attempt within timeout.
retries = 50
## SNMP version, values can be 1, 2, or 3
version = 3
## SNMP community string.
community = "mySNMPcommunitystring
## measurement name
#name = "system"
[[inputs.snmp.field]]
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