Does anyone have a workaround or idea for this:
- We have many devices (many of all the same device) that do not have MIB-2 installed, and the vendor is not going to install it.
- We added the devices, as IP addresses (they are not in DNS) via "ICMP only, then switched the polling method to "ICMP + SNMP" because Orion will not allow you to add them via SNMP if MIB-2 is not on the target device.
- We were then able to create custom pollers to pull the vendor specific OID data we need.
but...
The device is flapping down, then up, then down again. We have device polling set to 3 minutes, so it appears to be changing status every poll....I'm wildly guessing that in one poll SNMP is used (down), then for the next poll ICMP is used (up).
I've tried setting the custom node overrides for packet loss and response time to WARN > 99%, CRITICAL > 100%, but it has not helped.
The "down" event has this text: "<IP ADDRESS> has stopped responding (No Such Name)"
Any ideas on getting it to show "up" and stop flapping? I'm open to trying anything but I don't have the power to set up some sort of odd routing rules to route some SNMP request to bounce a false "up", or to manually patch + install MIB-2 on the device by myself. My scope of influence is limited making changes to NPM.