Description

On all Junos and Junos evolved platforms, continuous syslog error message like "sensor not present, skipping export for an external event" will be seen.

Symptoms

GNMI Unsubscription of Target-defined subscription not done correctly, which is causing the below error after unsubscription.


 mib2d[11960]: Sensor 562953097928025 not present, skipping export for external event oc-ipv6-nd6-change (internal event ipv6-nd6-change

 mib2d[11960]: Sensor 562953097928025 not present, skipping export for external event oc-ipv6-nd6-change (internal event ipv6-nd6-change


This issue might be seen if the following conditions are met:

  • On Junos and Evolved platforms
  • Syslog
  • SNMP 
  • gNMI

Solution

This log message 'sensor not present, skipping export for an external event' doesn't impact any service, however it keeps logging on to the ‘messages’.


Restoration step is to restart the mib2d process during the MW time:

>restart mib-process gracefully

 

(Or) login into the shell as root user and kill the process:

 

> show system processes extensive | match mib2d

 PID USERNAME  PRI NICE SIZE  RES STATE  C TIME  WCPU COMMAND

2678 root    21  0 808M  91M select 2 129:13 3.08% mib2d

 

> start shell user root

Password:

root@MX1:~ # kill -9 2678


Modification History

2024-11-08 : Article Created