RE: [nv-l] Snmpwalk fails

["Qureshi, Fawad" <Fawad.Qureshi@ssa.gov>]

Thanks Bill. We are testing that right now.

 

One more thing, an SNMP trap generated by such a device (Cisco device with a community name mismatch) will still be received and processed by Netview, right?

 

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stringfellow, William [mailto:William.Stringfellow@bankofamerica.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:06 PM
To: Qureshi, Fawad; nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Snmpwalk fails

Hi Fawad,

    Try running xnmsnmpconf -resolve <device name> and see what NetView tells you about the communitystring it wants to use.  If it is different from what you expect, look for entries in snmpconf under both the name and every ip address associated with that device to make sure there are no old entries with the wrong community string.

 

        Good luck,

        Bill

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Qureshi, Fawad [mailto:Fawad.Qureshi@ssa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:58 AM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: [nv-l] Snmpwalk fails

Netview 7.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3

Hi,

We have a script that does snmpwalk against a list of Cisco switches. We do not use the -c flag to specify community name, since the appropriate community name is already in communityNames.conf. Funny thing is that some of these snmpwalks that fail through the script work just fine if I use the -c flag from the command line. Could this be because of a difference in Cisco IOS and/or different switch models that we have? Any feedback will be appreciated.

Cheers,

Fawad Qureshi