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snnmpd: excessive logging, floods syslog/triggers ratelimiting

Added by Christian Lohmaier about 9 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

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Backups
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snmpd floods syslog with

Mar 9 22:40:15 vm169 snmpd27799: Connection from UDP:
[127.0.0.1]:58315->[127.0.0.1]
Mar 9 22:40:15 vm169 snmpd27799: Connection from UDP:
[127.0.0.1]:58315->[127.0.0.1]
Mar 9 22:40:15 vm169 snmpd27799: Connection from UDP:
[127.0.0.1]:58315->[127.0.0.1]
Mar 9 22:40:15 vm169 snmpd27799: Connection from UDP:
[127.0.0.1]:58315->[127.0.0.1]
[...]

reduce verbosity by limiting logs to warnings, errors, critical stuff
by changing
-Lsd (log to syslog, as daemon)
in /etc/defaults/snmpd to
-LS0-4d
uppercase variant allows to specify loglevels, 0 critical to 4
warning, omit 5-7 (notice, info, debug)

Actions #1

Updated by Alexander Werner about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
Actions #2

Updated by Alexander Werner about 9 years ago

  • Category set to Backups
Actions #3

Updated by Alexander Werner about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed

Adapted configuration for wheezy, precise, trusty and centos based systems

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