[nv-l] Errors in trapd.log related to community name

[anand anupam <ananda@bharatpetroleum.com>]

Hello Everybody,

We are having NetView 6.0.2 on AIX 4.3.3

We have defined six different community names in "communityNames.conf" file under /usr/OV/conf directory for our routers. Each routers have been configured to send SNMP trapd to two AIX boxes(production+lab).

Recently, we started getting the following errors in our trapd.log :-
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1064214682 11 Mon Sep 22 13:41:22 2003 BHILAIRT                  A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap) authAddr: BPCLNV
1064214728 11 Mon Sep 22 13:42:08 2003 SABARMATIRT               A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap) authAddr: BPCLNV
1064214733 11 Mon Sep 22 13:42:13 2003 MIRAJRT                   A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap) authAddr: BPCLNV
1064214755 11 Mon Sep 22 13:42:35 2003 NDARORT                   A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap) authAddr: 10.88.13.8
1064214755 11 Mon Sep 22 13:42:35 2003 NDARORT2                  A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap) authAddr: 10.88.13.8
1064214775 11 Mon Sep 22 13:42:55 2003 swc_core1                 A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap)
1064214780 11 Mon Sep 22 13:43:00 2003 swc_core1                 A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap)
1064214828 11 Mon Sep 22 13:43:48 2003 MIRAJRT                   A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap) authAddr: BPCLNV
1064214828 11 Mon Sep 22 13:43:48 2003 SABARMATIRT               A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap) authAddr: BPCLNV
1064215008 11 Mon Sep 22 13:46:48 2003 MIRAJRT                   A Cisco Incorre
ct Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap) authAddr: BPCLNV
1064215008 11 Mon Sep 22 13:46:48 2003 SABARMATIRT               A Cisco Incorre
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These errors were not coming earlier. But now are coming for almost all the routers. Probably, network administrators have removed public community name from all these routers. I suppose, public community name is not mandatory?

Then what could be the reason for these errors and where this could impact?

Regards,
Anupam

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