Auto Discovery Not Working

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Hi, I’m having trouble about Auto Discovery Feature of LIbrenms

I’m Running Librenms with Database server, RRDcached, and single distributed poller. I have few machines in my network installed and configured with SNMPv2. First time i added device manually(as required by manual), and then add more device by running ./snmp-scan.py. But then i realize that a single device can’t be added by auto discovery(either by running ./discovery.php -h new manually and running ./snmp-scan.py) What did went wrong? Please help me

Update :
Turn out i was able to discover my device by running ./snmp-scan.py but i’m still not be able to discover device through running ./discovery.php -h new manually nor automatically by cron

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https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Auto-Discovery/

How do you have auto-discovery setup? Keep in mind auto discovery only runs every 6 hours or depending on when you added the device.

Did you configure SNMP? https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Auto-Discovery/#snmp-details

Did you configure the nets its supposed to scan? https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Auto-Discovery/#allowed-networks

also if you don’t fqdn for your device I would suggest enabling this
$config['discovery_by_ip'] = true;

https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Auto-Discovery/#additional-options

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Thanks for the response :blush:
I added these lines to the config.php :

$config[‘snmp’][‘community’][] = “public”;

$config[‘nets’][] = ‘192.168.2.0/24’;
$config[‘nets’][] = ‘103.92.104.0/24’;
$config[‘nets’][] = ‘182.253.221.106/32’;

$config[‘discovery_by_ip’] = true;
$config[‘discovery_modules’][‘discovery-arp’] = 1;
$config[‘discovery_modules’][‘ipv4-addresses’] = 1;
$config[‘discovery_modules’][‘ipv6-addresses’] = 1;
$config[‘discovery_modules’][‘ports’] = 1;
$config[‘discovery_modules’][‘services’] = 1;
$config[‘allow_duplicate_sysName’] = true;

I already configured snmp on some device, i waited 24 hours but there is still no device added. Then i tried to run ./snmp-scan.py and all devices added!
./validate.php says discovery.php hasn’t run in 24 hours. Here’s my cron.d/librenms :

33 */6 * * * librenms /opt/librenms/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1
33 */6 * * * librenms /opt/librenms/discovery-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * librenms /opt/librenms/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * librenms /opt/librenms/poller-wrapper.py 24 >> /opt/librenms/logs/wrapper.log
15 0 * * * librenms /opt/librenms/daily.sh >> /dev/null 2>&1
** *** librenms /opt/librenms/alerts.php >> /dev/null 2>&1

What did i miss??

thanks, appreciated :smile:

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Most of those discovery modules don’t exist, you can’t just add something to the end of discovery_modules and it works.

Please go and re-read the discovery docs.

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Okay so i have to remove some module that doesn’t exist then.

But how about this error :
[FAIL] Discovery has not completed in the last 24 hours, check the cron job

Is my cron job experience some error? Or it’s the discovery.php file?

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This may be that a device isn’t completing discovery in a quick enough time.

Run this in mysql select hostname, last_discovered from devices; see which device has not been updated in the last 24 hours then run ./discovery.php -h HOSTNAME and see how long it takes.

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I saw all of my devices has not been updated in the last 24 hours. It doesn’t work either if i run manually(./discovery.php -h all). Here’s the output if i run ./discovery.php -h 192.168.2.247:

root@poller01:/opt/librenms# ./discovery.php -h 172.168.2.247
LibreNMS Discovery
SNMP: Get[0/0.00s] Walk [0/0.00s]
MySQL: Cell[0/0.00s] Row[0/0.00s] Rows[3/0.00s] Column[0/0.00s] Update[0/0.00s] Insert[0/0.00s] Delete[0/0.00s]

The devices table from mysql not updated and if i run ./validate.php it still get the Fail error.
So the problem is from the file discovery.php then? How do i fix it??

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That means that either you don’t have a device with that hostname or it’s currently down. What does it look like in the webui? Screenshot the overview page?

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Hi,
I’m having the exact same problem.
Did you ever get it fixed?

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what you meant by most of discovery modules dont exist? is it that we need to install LLDP module in Linux server where LibreNMS running?