Helmut, the part where it works for a name but not for an address was a
known
problem in 6.01 and I believe it is fixed in 6.02. I believe the wildcard
function is
supposed to still work, but I think it is probably not used very much since
they
gave us the communitynames.conf file. If you put your non-default community
strings in that file, netmon will try them at discovery, and add a node
entry in
xnmsnmpconf recording the correct one. snmpwalk does not check the
alternates,
so until the node has been added to xnmsnmpconf, you will have to specify
the community. It appears to me that in giving us this great new function,
the old function got a little rickety. But it is being repaired. So if you
have a
real need for the wildcard function, I suggest you call and open a ticket.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
helmut.schroeder.hs@bayer-ag.de@tkg.com on 04/05/2001 10:05:46 AM
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you all,
this is netview 6.01 on aix 4.3.3, problems with community names
during node discovery, using ip wildcards in ovsnmp.conf:
communityNames.conf is empty
ovsnmp.conf (configured via gui) is like:
10.10.10.*:new_community ... # new range entry
....
*.*.*.*:default_community ... # global default setting
the sequence of the entries is OK, and now trying to discover my node
10.10.10.1:
while trying to discover my new nodes, I can see all outgoing tcp requests
(tcpdump)
to the new node with the wrong community string "default_community"
instead of
'new_community'. getting authenticationFailure traps from my node and it
appears as isSNMP=False on the map ...
snmpwalk host1 system --> OK !
xnmsnmpconf -resolve hostname--> OK !
xnmsnmpconf -resolve 10.10.10.1--> OK !
cleared cache / did an ovstop / ovstart -> problem persists
setting single ip address (10.10.10.1) in ovsnmp.conf (via gui) ->
problem
persists
setting hostname instead of ip address, in ovsnmp.conf -->> OK !!
new_community is used ?!?
(name resolution in both ways OK)
any ideas will be greatly appreciated !!
Helmut Schroeder
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