Technical Note: Watchdog Timeout / Application Crash snmpd (signal 6) abort
Description
Solution
When implementing SNMP monitoring and after starting SNMP queries FortiGates snmp daemon starts crashing due to the signal 6 (Abort).
Solution
This issue may be caused by duplicate snmp-index on multiple interfaces. To check the index number of the interfaces:
Example of the output:
To resolve this issue change the snmp-index:
show system interface
Example of the output:
config system interface
edit "mgmt"
set vdom "root"
set ip 172.30.30.99 255.255.255.0
set allowaccess ping https ssh snmp http fgfm
set type physical
set dedicated-to management
set role lan
set snmp-index 1
next
edit "ha"
set vdom "root"
set type physical
set snmp-index 2
next
edit "wan1"
set vdom "root"
set mode dhcp
set allowaccess ping
set type physical
set role wan
set snmp-index 2
next
To resolve this issue change the snmp-index:
config system interface
edit <interface name>
set snmp-index AAA -----{ where AAA is a not used index number
next
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