Bug ID 1326333: Case unexpected large amount of "Calling RcvrTableHandler handler" from sflow_agent cause suppressing

Last Modified: Apr 17, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4

Opened: Aug 01, 2023

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

The sflow_agent have a large amount of the following log message popup within several ms: Sun 2023-07-16 19:47:16.661853 PDT MESSAGE=Calling RcvrTableHandler handler (sFlowVersion) mode (160). <...> Sun 2023-07-16 19:47:16.665273 PDT MESSAGE=Calling RcvrTableHandler handler (sFlow Receiver Table) mode (161). which causes journey log suppressing.

Impact

Unexpected log messages are displayed from sflow_agent.

Conditions

When we run snmpwalk with sflow related OIDs. For example, snmpwalk -v2c -c public 127.0.0.1 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14706.1.1.1

Workaround

Perform the following as a workaround: Step 1: Open the sflow_agent service file on BIG-IP vi /etc/bigstart/startup/sflow_agent Step 2: Modify the below line. exec /usr/sbin/${service} -f -LF 5 /var/log/sflow_agent.log > /dev/null ==========> exec /usr/sbin/${service} -f -LS5d -LF 5 /var/log/sflow_agent.log > /dev/null Step 3: Restarted the sflow_agent with the below command. bigstart restart sflow_agent Step 4: The debug messages would not go to the syslog server and Journald will not have these logs.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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