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SNMP disk space wrong

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I have been asked by a user why the PRTG snmp disk sensors dont match the linux df command, I have done an snmpwalk and checked the figures of both snmp and df adn the are identical.

But the figure in PRTG is off by a big margin, could you explain this?

DF - h = 25Gb PRTG = 63,254 MByte

diskspace prtg snmp

Created on Mar 17, 2014 9:47:03 AM



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What result do you get from the SNMP Tester? Would it be possible to post the output here of the tester along with the output of the df- h command in full?

Created on Mar 18, 2014 11:56:55 AM by Greg Campion [Paessler Support]



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Hi Greg,

see below for df -h, snmpwalk and snmp tester.

[sciteqmh@iaptusvnode1 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_maydenasvnode1-lv_root
                       77G   21G   52G  29% /
tmpfs                 3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             485M   63M  397M  14% /boot
/dev/sdb1             739G  678G   24G  97% /mnt/iaptus_docs
/dev/sdc1             148G  125G   16G  89% /mnt/iaptus_docs1

[sciteqmh@iaptusvnode1 ~]$ snmpwalk -v 2c -c ???????? 127.0.0.1 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorage
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrMemorySize.0 = INTEGER: 8194320 KBytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.3 = INTEGER: 3
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.6 = INTEGER: 6
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.7 = INTEGER: 7
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.10 = INTEGER: 10
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.31 = INTEGER: 31
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.35 = INTEGER: 35
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.36 = INTEGER: 36
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.37 = INTEGER: 37
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.38 = INTEGER: 38
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.1 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageRam
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.3 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageVirtualMemory
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.6 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageOther
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.7 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageOther
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.10 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageVirtualMemory
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.31 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.35 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.36 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.37 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.38 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.1 = STRING: Physical memory
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.3 = STRING: Virtual memory
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.6 = STRING: Memory buffers
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.7 = STRING: Cached memory
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.10 = STRING: Swap space
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.31 = STRING: /
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.35 = STRING: /dev/shm
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.36 = STRING: /boot
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.37 = STRING: /mnt/iaptus_docs
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.38 = STRING: /mnt/iaptus_docs1
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.1 = INTEGER: 1024 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.3 = INTEGER: 1024 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.6 = INTEGER: 1024 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.7 = INTEGER: 1024 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.10 = INTEGER: 1024 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.31 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.35 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.36 = INTEGER: 1024 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.37 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.38 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.1 = INTEGER: 8194320
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.3 = INTEGER: 10258696
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.6 = INTEGER: 8194320
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.7 = INTEGER: 2297280
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.10 = INTEGER: 2064376
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.31 = INTEGER: 20007967
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.35 = INTEGER: 1007778
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.36 = INTEGER: 495844
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.37 = INTEGER: 193522614
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.38 = INTEGER: 38704122
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.1 = INTEGER: 6619216
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.3 = INTEGER: 6622424
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.6 = INTEGER: 321192
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.7 = INTEGER: 2297280
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.10 = INTEGER: 3208
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.31 = INTEGER: 5437006
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.35 = INTEGER: 0
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.36 = INTEGER: 63816
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.37 = INTEGER: 177590057
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.38 = INTEGER: 32607971


----------------------- New Test -----------------------
Paessler SNMP Tester 5.1.2
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (1 ms) : Device: 10.0.24.42
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (1 ms) : SNMP V2c
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (1 ms) : Walk 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (3 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.2.0 = "8194320"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (4 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.1 = "1"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (5 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.3 = "3"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (6 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.6 = "6"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (7 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.7 = "7"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (8 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.10 = "10"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (10 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.31 = "31"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (12 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.35 = "35"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (13 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.36 = "36"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (15 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.37 = "37"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (16 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.1.38 = "38"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (18 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.1 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.2"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (20 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.3 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.3"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (22 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.6 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.1"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (24 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.7 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.1"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (26 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.10 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.3"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (27 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.31 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (29 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.35 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (31 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.36 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (33 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.37 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (36 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.2.38 = "1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (38 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.1 = "Physical memory"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (40 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.3 = "Virtual memory"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (43 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.6 = "Memory buffers"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (45 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.7 = "Cached memory"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (48 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.10 = "Swap space"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (50 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.31 = "/"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (53 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.35 = "/dev/shm"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (56 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.36 = "/boot"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (58 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.37 = "/mnt/iaptus_docs"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (61 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.38 = "/mnt/iaptus_docs1"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (64 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.1 = "1024"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (67 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.3 = "1024"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (70 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.6 = "1024"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (73 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.7 = "1024"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (78 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.10 = "1024"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (84 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.31 = "4096"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (89 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.35 = "4096"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (94 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.36 = "1024"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (99 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.37 = "4096"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (104 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.38 = "4096"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (109 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.1 = "8194320"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (114 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.3 = "10258696"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (119 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.6 = "8194320"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (125 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.7 = "2302688"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (130 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.10 = "2064376"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (135 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.31 = "20007967"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (140 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.35 = "1007778"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (144 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.36 = "495844"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (149 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.37 = "193522614"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (155 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.38 = "38704122"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (159 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.1 = "6606492"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (164 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.3 = "6609700"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (169 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.6 = "321032"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (175 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.7 = "2302688"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (180 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.10 = "3208"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (185 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.31 = "5438832"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (190 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.35 = "0"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (195 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.36 = "63816"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (200 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.37 = "177591662"
18/03/2014 12:24:33 (204 ms) : 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.38 = "32608667"

Created on Mar 18, 2014 12:24:29 PM

Last change on Mar 19, 2014 10:00:10 AM by Greg Campion [Paessler Support]



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Testing this out here, it looked like I was having a similar issue with the SNMP agent on one of the machines here but once I rebooted the Linux box, it seems to be working properly now. Can you please try rebooting the target?

If that doesn't work, please try creating a new sensor for this disk and let me know if you have the same issue.

Created on Mar 19, 2014 10:48:18 AM by Greg Campion [Paessler Support]



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Hi Greg,

I have tested a new sensor, but it still reports the wrong data. I cant get the server restarted as its used 24/7.

Any other help?

Created on Mar 24, 2014 2:41:17 PM



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Would it be possible to restart the SNMP service on the server? Also, is this only happening on this one server or is it happening on multiple servers?

Created on Mar 24, 2014 3:33:29 PM by Greg Campion [Paessler Support]



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Hi Gerg,

I have just found time to have a look at this and found that the SNMP data is reported wrong, I have checked this using snmpwalk, df and PRTG. See the below table.

dfdf / 1024df * 1024PRTGsnmp(snmp/1024)/1024
Total774090752.00755948.00792668930048.00755948.00792668626944.00755947.71
Available10838016.0010584.0011098128384.0048913.0051292991488.0048916.81
Used723931136.00706964.00741305483264.00707035.00741375635456.00707030.90

To get an acurate view of the data I have used the SNMP Linux disk free sensor and added a line to the snmpd.conf file.

snmpd.conf: disk / 5%

This is all on Redhat 6 servers, will have a look at a CentOS server to see if I still get the same results.

Created on Apr 2, 2014 10:10:02 AM



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This is an issue because of the way SNMP handles the values in 32bit counters. Please see: Why do my SNMP Disk Free sensors display incorrect or negative values?

Created on Apr 25, 2016 9:03:25 AM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]

Last change on Apr 25, 2016 9:05:35 AM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]




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