Nagios xi - MRTG Reports SNMP_Session Errors

Problem Description

When running MRTG at the command line:

LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache-file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok

You receive errors similar to this:

Subroutine SNMP_Session::pack_sockaddr_in6 redefined at /usr/local/share/perl5/Exporter.pm line 66.
at /usr/bin/../lib/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm line 149.
Subroutine SNMP_Session::unpack_sockaddr_in6 redefined at /usr/local/share/perl5/Exporter.pm line 66.
at /usr/bin/../lib/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm line 149.
Subroutine SNMPv1_Session::pack_sockaddr_in6 redefined at /usr/local/share/perl5/Exporter.pm line 66.
at /usr/bin/../lib/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm line 604.
Subroutine SNMPv1_Session::unpack_sockaddr_in6 redefined at /usr/local/share/perl5/Exporter.pm line 66.
at /usr/bin/../lib/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm line 604.

This KB article explains how to fix these errors.

Resolution

The following step will make changes to the SNMP_Session.pm files. There are several copies of these files so first we must find them:

find /usr/ -name SNMP_Session.pm | grep mrtg

Which should output something like:

/usr/lib64/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm
/usr/lib/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm

Edit the first file:

vi /usr/lib64/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm

This opens the vi text editor.

Type /pack_sockaddr_in6 on the keyboard and press enter

This will take you to the section we want to edit.

Confirm that the line that looks like this:

Socket6->import(qw(pack_sockaddr_in6 inet_pton getaddrinfo));

Press i on the keyboard to go into insert mode.

Change the line so it looks like this:

Socket6->import(qw(inet_pton getaddrinfo inet_ntop));

Press Escape on the keyboard to exit insert mode.

There may be multiple lines in the file that contain pack_sockaddr_in6, repeat the above steps to find any other lines and update them.

Type :wq and then press Enter (this will save the file and exit vi).

Repeat the above steps for all the SNMP_Session.pm files you found with the first command.

After completing these steps run MRTG again to ensure the errors are no longer produced.

LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache-file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok

If you no longer receive the errors the problem has been resolved.

Final Thoughts

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