Another common source of bad communities is the HP Jet Direct tools. I
don't
know how that works, but it has been mentioned here before.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager
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02/21/2000 10:09 AM ---------------------------
Indy <indy.chakrabarti@ewllc.com>@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU> on 02/17/2000 11:21:19
AM
Please respond to indy.chakrabarti@ewllc.com
Sent by: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
<NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
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Subject: Re: Antw: Netview authentication failure on community name
Michael, James (Shanks), thanks for your responses on this. I will
investigate what you guys said.
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From: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
[mailto:NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu]On Behalf Of Michael Seibold
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 10:06 AM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: Antw: Netview authentication failure on community name
Have you configured the communities for your loopback-address and your
servers ip address in snmpConf?
Maybe someone else is trying to poll your Server?
If you have cisco routers with authentication traps enabled, try changing
the snmp communities on them to something else than public/private (you
should do it anyway...) on the cisco box and you may see the ip address of
someone else doing an snmp get on your boxes (maybe JetDirect-Server-Tools
or something like that).
Michael Seibold
>>> Indy <indy.chakrabarti@EWLLC.COM> 17.02.2000 16.50 Uhr >>>
I have Netview 5.1.2 on AIX 4.3.2.
I continually get an event that says I have an authentication failure on
the
node on which Netview is installed due to a bad community name. Yet I see
that the node shows as "managed", and that snmpd is running on it, and I
can
do an snmpwalk. The community name is set to public for my entire network,
and I can see the other nodes on the network w/o bad community name
problems. My snmp.conf and snmp.peers file looks okay too. And Netview
seems
to run fine, despite this supposed bad community name. What causes this?
And
how can I turn of this trap so I don't get this error?
Thanks.
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