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New Install - SNMP conf failing

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Subject: New Install - SNMP conf failing
From: "Don Helms" <dhelms@sw.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:01:29 -0600
If this is covered in an archive somewhere, just point me 
there and I'll gladly do the grunt work myself.                     

We are in the process of getting Tivoli Enterprise 
Framework and NetView 6.01 installed on AIX.  The 
consultants have not fully turned it over, so we are 
not set up with Tivoli Tech Support yet.

We are running multiple community strings on our network.
In the SNMP conf settings, I have "public" as a global 
default and I'm trying to set up other strings in IP 
address ranges.

During discovery, the global default "public" is working. 
The wildcards are being ignored.  If I enable the 
communityNames.conf file, the correct community name gets
picked up here as a last resort, but then places hundreds of
individual device entries in the top section on the SNMP 
config screen.  This will be a major pain whenever we change 
community strings - like as soon as this consulting team leaves.

Oddly, the wildcard entries fail during discovery, but seem to 
work during a TEST:IP/TCP/SNMP Connectivity.  The objects come 
up as unknown types (e.g. not routers) and demand poll fails.  
MIB browsing and connectivity testing work though, so the 
correct community string is getting in there for part of the 
process anyway.

An example from snmp.conf is included below
(Managed via GUI, not edited directly, SNMP strings 
changed of course)

My seed file device is on the first line, this works OK.
The last line for "public" works OK.  

Currently I am only using the two sets of strings. I expect 
to see about 3-4 sets for different Admin teams in final 
production.
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r-core1.sw.org:community1:*:50:2:300::community2:604800::3600::1:1:1
*.*.*.250-254:community1:*:50:2:300::community2:604800::::1:1:1
10.1-9.*.*:community1:*:50:2:300::community2:604800::::1:1:1
10.250.*.*:community1:*:50:2:300::community2:604800::::1:1:1
10.99.*.*:community1:*:50:2:300::community2:604800::::1:1:1
205.203.59.*:community1:*:50:2:300::community2:604800::::1:1:1
205.203.*.1-19:community1:*:50:2:300::community2:604800::::1:1:1
10.*.*.1-19:community1:*:50:2:300::community2:604800::::1:1:1
*.*.*.*:public:*:50:2:300::system:604800::::1:1:1
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Don Helms
   Scott & White Hospital
   dhelms@sw.org


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