MIB2AGT eatting up Memory - 11.o

[Laurie A. Krumrey]

Hi Again,

On our 11.0 box MIB2AGT is eatting up too much
memory. And my dba had me kill this process
(I hope that's ok??)

I saw patch PHSS_23670 was recommended to fix
this problem. Is this correct? This box
is hard core production and I don't want
to take any chances of making things
worst...

Was it OK to kill MIB2AGT??

thanks,
Laurie

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Laurie:

The patch is marked as a "critical" one, fixes CPU utilization problems, has been available for quite a while, and does *not* require a reboot to install. Therefore, I suggest since you have the issue, install it.

Killing any process is not the most desirable thing to do. If a 'kill' is the only method available, then at least, *avoid* 'kill -9'. This form of 'kill' is not trapable and does not give the process any chance to trap signals and cleanup temporary files or shared memory.

Regards!

...JRF...

[linuxfan]

Hi Laurie,

Did you try stopping it (/sbin/init.d/SnmpMib2 stop) before killing it?

In anycase if you are not using the SNMP Mibagents you can disable them from starting up, the files you need to modify are (SnmpHpunix, SnmpMaster, SnmpMib2, SnmpTrpDst in /etc/rc.config.d) Disable these only if you are not using the SNMP Mibs.

Yes its ok to install the PHSS_23670 while the system is running and though this patch is NOT critical , the patches it superseded (PHSS_13425) was but there are no special intructions for installing this patch.

-HTH
Ramesh

[Laurie A. Krumrey]

Thanks this is all good info.

But how do I tell if I am using SMNP, MIB2AGT.
I don't think we are. We only use our unix
boxes as oracle database servers. We have
TCP/IP.

Should I just turn it off? How do I tell if I
really need it. I killed the process (very
badly with kill -9) and nothing bad as
happen..tho I won't do that again.

Laurie

[linuxfan]

Hi Laurie,

You would need it, if you are monitoring your machine through HP's openview (IT/O) or any SNMP based monitors.

But from what you said, i don't believe you need that running.

-Ramesh

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi Laurie,

You need to install the following patch :
PHSS_23670

have a look on the following thread :

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xbe97e7e60861d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Magdi