snmp in Red Hat Enterprse Linux 5 shows zero values for CPU utilization after 30 days
Issue
- snmp CPU usage is different from that shown in top
- About every 30 days of running, all
ssCpuIdle.0
,ssCpuUser.0
, andssCpuSystem.0
will be printed as zero for a while (about 10 minutes) and after the period, it will work fine again without any manual action.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
- net-snmp-5.3.2.2-9.el5
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