Installing snmp-exporter/ generator on RHEL 7

[Charan Tej]

Hello All,

I am trying to install snmp-exporter in RHEL 7 and following the commands from the Github repo. 

sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ make net-snmp net-snmp-utils net-snmp-libs net-snmp-devel --- done

 go get github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/generator -- latest error is below,

     # github.com/gosnmp/gosnmp

/root/go/src/github.com/gosnmp/gosnmp/gosnmp.go:351:72: unknown field 'Control' in struct literal of type net.Dialer

/root/go/src/github.com/gosnmp/gosnmp/v3_usm.go:159:9: undefined: strings.Builder

Initial error (package gopkg.in/yaml.v2: unrecognized import path "gopkg.in/yaml.v2" (parse) , I thought  "go get" was deprecated and as a workaround I tried 

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/getgo/installer_linux 

chmod +x installer_linux 

source /root/.bash_profile

go install github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter@latest -- 

can't load package: package github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter@latest: cannot find package "github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter@latest" in any of:
    /usr/lib/golang/src/github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter@latest (from $GOROOT)
    /root/go/src/github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter@latest (from $GOPATH)

Next steps:

cd ${GOPATH-$HOME/go}/src/github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/generator 

go build 

make mibs

I spent almost a week trying to figure out how to get this working, if someone could help me with all the steps for installing snmp-exporter for Prometheus in RHEL 7, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Ben Kochie]

This is likely because your Go compiler is too old.

Make sure you have the latest version of Go installed.

https://go.dev/dl/

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[Charan Tej]

Ben,

Thank you, I was able to proceed after upgrading go version, but the latest errors are when I do "make build". Do you have any idea? the mibs directory was created but nothing inside.

#make mibs
mkdir: created directory ‘mibs’
>> Downloading apc-powernet-mib
make: *** [mibs/apc-powernet-mib] Error 22

Thank you,

Charan Jalakam

[Charan Tej]

I tried all the options on the web but had no luck.

[Brian Candler]

If you show what you actually did, and what error you got back, someone might be able to help.