NPM is reporting 100% CPU utilization on this system type. Actually it's running at 40%. Anyone else have this issue? Can this be corrected?
I've seen the identical issue on some of our FreeBSD machines. A quick check with a MIB browser showed that different servers were replying differently (or not at all) to queries for information relating to CPU, memory and disk space. One specific example I see SolarWinds querying for is .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.11 (ssCpuIdle). The FreeBSD servers that work accurately report the value while those that have the issue do not. In fact, the ones that do not don't report anything for the .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11 (systemStats) table at all.
Unfortunately, our solution at the time was simply to remove the offending parameters from SolarWinds since we already had those statistics collected locally on the servers.
At any rate, it didn't appear to be an issue with SolarWinds collection but rather the FreeBSD systems, though the data may be available through another MIB on the offending servers. However, that would require a custom poller.
In our instance the one of the servers that works has net-snmp-5.1.2_1 (5.3-RELEASE) while one that doesn't work (6.0-RELEASE) doesn't seem to have that package installed at all. I'd noticed during our initial investigation that the ones that work are discovered by SolarWinds as MachineType='net-snmp' while those that don't are listed as MachineType='Linux'. I'd brought that to the attention of our admin for the offending servers, but they've been overwhelmed with other issues and I don't have the access or desire to modify those particular servers, which is what resulted in the simple removal of the values from SolarWinds. However, I suspect torrie may find a similar issue with net-snmp on his machines.
Sorry for the delay guys. This is a new box (sidewinder) being installed and no one onsite knows that information. I'm waiting for their support to get back to them.
