I am using Solaris 8 and NetView 7.1.2
The more nodes NetView discovers the authenticationFailure traps I receive.
My events application is now totally snowed with authenticationFailure
traps. The format of the traps are generally:
"A authenticationFailure trap received from enterprise cisco with 1
argument: authAddr=ch-220r-mm-01"
(where ch-220r-mm-01 is the DNS name of my NetView Server)
and the oid sent back in the message is a cisco OID
ENTERPRISE: cisco 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.301
My theory is that NetView and my MLMs are somehow communicating with each
other using invalid community names. However, I am sure that I have
configured the Solaris snmpdx, mibiisa and the NetView midmand and mgragent
ACL files correctly!
I found this statement in the Unix configuration guide
Authentication Failure:
An authentication failure results when the community name, sent by a
manager
system to an agent, is not valid. When an agent receives a community name
that is
not valid, it can send an authentication failure trap to the Tivoli NetView
program,
which logs authentication failure traps in its event log,
/usr/OV/log/ovevent.log.
In the above statement - what is being referred to as the "agent". Is that
MLM or any box with SNMP enabled?
Can anyone help me track down what's happening?
John
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