Smarts IP: Discovery of a device throws the error: "SWFE-E-ESNMPREQUEST-SNMP-GETNEXT Request failed Error Code resourceUnavailable, Agent <OID >"

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


The device discovers and is added to the topology, but the following error is seen in the device DiscoveryErrorInfo attribute:

SWFE-E-ESNMPREQUEST-SNMP-GETNEXT Request failed: Error Code: resourceUnavailable, Agent: <Agent>, OID <OID>

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

The device SNMP agent returned this error message resourceUnavailable while SMARTS IP is trying to get the value of the OID mentioned.

As per RFC 3416 Error Code: resourceUnavailable(13) indicates no system resources are available to perform operation. This indicates a problem with the SNMP process running on device which is unavailable to reply to the SNMP GET request.

Please contact the device vendor for further assistance.