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Re: Authentication Problem

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Subject: Re: Authentication Problem
From: Jim Kellock <jkelloc@ibm.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:30:31 -0400
To see the results of the higher logging, look on the polled machine in
/var/tmp/snmpd.log.



Thomas Kunz wrote:
> 
> I turned on the snmpd debug.
> Some additional info.
> Luminere.pts.umn.edu is the Netview manager and it is an AIX system and 
> following is from the snmpd.log
> 160.94.1.196 is the IP address of luminere
> I don't know what SMUX is and in the /etc/snmpd.conf I found these lines and 
> I don't know what it is trying to do here either but am wondering if this is 
> the source of the problem
> 
> smux      1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.4.1           password  # TME 10 NetView: trapgend  
>       # not the real password
> smux      1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.4.6           password  # TME 10 NetView: mgragentd 
>      # not the real password
> 
> where is this password referenced?
> what does the badIdentity refer to?
> 
> 09/28/00 00:30:24 NOTICE: SMUX packet from (160.94.1.196+47655+4)
> {
>    simple {
>       version 0,
>       identity 0.0,
>       description "NSGS",
>       password ""
>    }
> }
> 09/28/00 00:30:24 EXCEPTIONS: simpleOpen rejected (badIdentity): 0.0 (SMUX 
> 160.94.1.196+47655+4)
> 09/28/00 00:30:24 TRACE:
> {
>    version 0,
>    community "public",
>    data {
>       trap {
>          enterprise risc6000snmpd.3,
>          agent-addr 'a05e01c4'H,
>          generic-trap 4,
>          specific-trap 0,
>          time-stamp 2431973,
>          variable-bindings {}
>       }
>    }
> }
> 09/28/00 00:30:24 DEBUG: sending 48 bytes to 127.0.0.1
> 09/28/00 00:30:24 PDUS:
>  30 2e 02 01 00 04 06 70 75 62 6c 69 63 a4 21 06
>  0c 2b 06 01 04 01 02 03 01 02 01 01 03 40 04 a0
>  5e 01 c4 02 01 04 02 01 00 43 03 25 1b e5 30 00
> 09/28/00 00:30:24 DEBUG: sent trap (authenticationFailure) to 127.0.0.1
> 
> Thanks and have a great day!  :-)
> Tom Kunz
> OIT/PTS Network & AIX Systems Support
> University of Minnesota
> 1300 S. 2nd St.
> Mpls., MN. 55454-1083
> Suite 660
> Phone: 612-624-8086
> Fax: 612-626-1332
> Email: t-kunz@cafe.tc.umn.edu
> 
> >>> lclark@us.ibm.com 09/27/00 01:52PM >>>
> 
> Some management system somewhere is polling luminere.pts.umn.edu
> with an incorrect community, and luminere.pts.umn.edu has its trap
> destination
> set to the Netview box, so it reports it to you. Is it the Netview box
> itself doing that poll?
> Test this by doing a demand poll on the node. If you get a whole bunch more
> of the same
> traps, then it is you. If not, it is someone else. Perhaps you have another
> Netview,
> or an Openview system on the network? Netview for NT has a nice, regular
> daily configuration poll that by default goes off at that time of day.  Do
> you have
> one of those? The daily config poll on Unix is less regular, but could by
> chance have
> become set to that time. The numbers in front of the trap are a unix form
> of timestamp,
> I think.
> 
> If lumiere is an AIX box, you can turn on debug in its /etc/snmpd.conf
> (raise it by one
> or 2 levels) and check the snmpd.log (its location is specified in the same
> file) to
> see what community string it is getting that it does not like. That may
> give you a clue
> as to who is doing the polling.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
> 
> "Thomas Kunz" <t-kunz@admin.ndis.umn.edu>@tkg.com on 09/27/2000 01:51:44 PM
> 
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> 
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> 
> Hello
> 
> We have NetView 5.1.2, AIX 4.3.1 and Framework 3.6.1.
> Every day at 12:30 A.M. we get the following error message in trapd.log.
> How can I find out where it is coming from?
> Also what do the numbers at the front of the message mean?
> 
> 970032625  4  Wed Sep 27 00:30:25 2000 luminere.pts.umn.edu      A IBM
> Incorrect Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap)
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Thanks and have a great day!  :-)
> Tom Kunz
> OIT/PTS Network & AIX Systems Support
> University of Minnesota
> 1300 S. 2nd St.
> Mpls., MN. 55454-1083
> Suite 660
> Phone: 612-624-8086
> Fax: 612-626-1332
> Email: t-kunz@cafe.tc.umn.edu
> 
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