Authentication Failures are ALWAYS about using the wrong community name.
That is precisely what "authentication failure" means -- someone or
something attempted to get information from an SNMP agent using an
incorrect community name. So if the source of this trap is a Cisco
device, I recommend you go login to that device and look at its logs. I
am not certain but it ay be that someone changed the read community name
on this box and that change has not been made yet in NetView using the
xnmsnmpconf dialog.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
john.j.mackney@accenture.com
09/18/2002 04:37 AM
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Subject: [nv-l] authenticationFailure trap received from
enterprise cisco
I have NetView 7.1.2 on Solaris 8 (+All recommended SUN patches)
Since I turned NetView on this week I keep getting loads of traps like the
following:
A authenticationFailure trap received from enterprise cisco with 1
argument: authAddr= "my_netview_server"
SPECIFIC : 0 (hex: 0)
GENERIC : 4
CATEGORY : Status Events
ENTERPRISE : cisco 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.48
SOURCE : Agent (A)
HOSTNAME : "cisco 7505's IP address"
SEVERITY : Indeterminate
LOGGEDTIME : 09/18/02 06:25:01 AM
If I click Browse MIB and follow down the tree I can get to
.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1...
or
.iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprise.enterprises.cisco.ciscoProducts...
But I cannot find the final .48 in the tree.
I do not think the error is related to community names as when I click
"Start Query" anywhere in the MIB tree, I get in the messages window if
the
MIB browser:
Note using community "our_read_Community_Name" for node "cisco 7505's IP
address"
and it returns a value
Anyone know what's happening. I get similar traps from other cisco devices
(but obviously with either OID values - which also do not resolve the last
value).
Is this because the OS of the cisco devices do not match the MIBs I have
installed.
Please - any info anyone - out network managers are complaining about the
volume of traps.
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