We had exactly the same problem.
It went away with 6.02
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nv-l@tkg.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@tkg.com]On Behalf Of
> James_Shanks@tivoli.com
> Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2001 21:09
> To: IBM NetView Discussion
> Subject: Re: [NV-L] SNMP configuration not updated
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> At your current level of maintenance, you are doing the right
> thing. I
> believe this issue is currently being worked on, but if you want more
> details, contact Support.
>
>
> James Shanks
> Team Leader, Level 3 Support
> Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
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>
>
> mans.langert@se.ibm.com@tkg.com on 05/31/2001 05:13:30 AM
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> Subject: [NV-L] SNMP configuration not updated
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> Hi,
>
> I have a peculiar problem with bad community while NetView is
> talking to
> some nodes. We use four different community names beside the default
> "public", and they have been added to the communityNames.conf
> file. Most
> nodes and their community name (except the ones using
> "public") are then
> added to the snmp configuration database (ovsnmp.conf)
> automatically by
> NetView itself.
> But not all of them. Some of them (of some reason they're all Cisco
> switches) just don't get there, so each time I demand poll the node or
> NetView uses SNMP to query it, I get numerous of
> authentication failure
> traps before I get any respond from it. Like if it first
> tries "public",
> then the first entry in communityNames.conf, the second entry
> and so on
> until it gets to the one that works with the specific node.
> If I manually
> add
> the node in snmp configuration of course it will then work
> alright but that
> shouldn't be needed, right?
> To spare my event log I did add a SmartSet called
> Cisco_Switches to my
> snmp
> configuration with the right community, but how do I solve
> this without
> doing such walk-around?
>
> AIX 4.3.3/NetView 6.01
>
> TIA
>
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> Måns Langert
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