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I have two servers running Mac OS X 10.8.3 Server (Build 12D78) with SNMP reporting enabled. I have a cacti server set up collecting data from these hosts. My Load Average, CPU Usage, Disk Space Usage and network graphs all look great! But memory usage is all -nan across the board.

I saw this related question but it's so old I believe it is not valid for OS X Server 10.8.

When I run snmpwalk -v2c -c communityname 10.100.10.10 .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4 against the Mac OS X server, I get:

UCD-SNMP-MIB::memIndex.0 = INTEGER: 0 UCD-SNMP-MIB::memErrorName.0 = STRING: swap UCD-SNMP-MIB::memMinimumSwap.0 = INTEGER: 16000 kB

Compare that to a FreeBSD server on my network:

kyle:~ dfjosh$ snmpwalk -v2c -c communityname 10.100.1.1 .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4 UCD-SNMP-MIB::memIndex.0 = INTEGER: 0 UCD-SNMP-MIB::memErrorName.0 = STRING: swap UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalSwap.0 = INTEGER: 2097024 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailSwap.0 = INTEGER: 2097024 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalReal.0 = INTEGER: 504028 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailReal.0 = INTEGER: 27336 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalFree.0 = INTEGER: 34092 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memMinimumSwap.0 = INTEGER: 16000 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memShared.0 = INTEGER: 124432 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memBuffer.0 = INTEGER: 60320 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memCached.0 = INTEGER: 6756 kB UCD-SNMP-MIB::memSwapError.0 = INTEGER: noError(0) UCD-SNMP-MIB::memSwapErrorMsg.0 = STRING: kyle:~ dfjosh$ snmpwalk -v2c -c farcry 10.100.10.10 .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4 UCD-SNMP-MIB::memIndex.0 = INTEGER: 0 UCD-SNMP-MIB::memErrorName.0 = STRING: swap UCD-SNMP-MIB::memMinimumSwap.0 = INTEGER: 16000 kB

I tried compiling and installing net-SNMP from scratch, biut it didn't change the data returned.

How can I get Mac OS X Server to report memory usage (and, ideally, swap or page in/ous) via SNMP?

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    (And please don't downvote me just because you dislike Mac OS X. This really is a server question! It's on topic, I swear!) Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 17:18

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Probably silly question, but have you compared the config files between the BSD and the OS X Server?

Additionally have you compared the compile time configuration options between the machines?

'--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '-- infodir=/usr/share/info' '--localstatedir=/var' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/net-snmp' '--disable- maintainer-mode' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '-- mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-persistent-directory=/var/lib/snmp' '--enable-ucd-snmp-compatibility' '--enable-shared' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format- security' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'FFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro' '-- with-perl-modules=INSTALLDIRS=vendor' '--enable-as-needed' '--enable-ipv6' '--with-logfile=none' '-- without-rpm' '--with-libwrap' '--with-openssl' '--without-dmalloc' '--without-efence' '--without- rsaref' '--with-sys-contact=root' '--with-sys-location=Unknown' '--with-mib-modules=smux ucd- snmp/dlmod ucd-snmp/diskio ucd-snmp/lmSensors host' '--with-out-mib-modules=' '--enable-mfd-rewrites' '

This is what I have on my Linux machine with the Sensors for memory included.

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  • Good thought! I believe the configs were the same, I will confirm that. How did you get the above list? Just cat config.nice or is there a way to get it from a compiled snmpd binary? Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 21:56
  • net-snmp-config --configure-options will show the parameters Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 21:57
  • Thanks! Sure enough, that reports --without-kmem-usage as an option. I'll play around with ./configure and see if I can't find a way to fix that. Commented May 1, 2013 at 0:08

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