Have you added any of these community names to the communityNames.conf file?
Also have you installed any patches? If so, which patches?
Paul
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 11:08, you wrote:
> Scott:
>
> First of all, thanks.
> I did as you told me to and got the netmon.trace, but it only shows the
> community used with already discovered nodes... The thing is that, because
> of my seed file ( !@oid 0), no nodes with communities other than the
> default were discovered, which are the ones I try to poll AND discover.
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Barr, Scott [mailto:Scott_Barr@csgsystems.com]
> Enviado el: Miércoles, 26 de Noviembre de 2003 11:57 a.m.
> Para: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
> Asunto: RE: [nv-l] netmon and SNMP communities
>
>
> During times of problem - use the netmon -a 175 command and look in
> /usr/OV/log/netmon.trace to see if the community name is different than the
> one reported in xnmsnmpconf. Thats the bug Leslie is referring to.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]On
> Behalf Of Leslie Clark Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:42 AM
> To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
> Subject: Re: [nv-l] netmon and SNMP communities
>
>
>
> Do you have maintenance on this 7.1.3? There were problems with communities
> that were fixed.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
>
>
>
> "Federico Vidal" <fvidal@tecsystem.com.ar>
> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
>
>
> 11/26/2003 12:16 PM
> Please respond to nv-l
>
>
>
> To: "Nv-L (E-mail)" <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>
> cc:
> Subject: [nv-l] netmon and SNMP communities
>
>
>
>
> Hello List:
>
> I have a customer with Netview 7.1.3 on Linux who tries to discover his
> network with it. The thing is that, having a seed file that only discovers
> SNMP devices ( !@oid 0 ), he can't discover any device beside the ones
> using the default community. Any device that has another SNMP community
> different than the default, can't be discovered.
>
> I will give full details: Looking into the matter, i found that the SNMP
> configuration (xnmsnmpconf) is correct because I can manually poll these
> devices using snmpwalk without specifying community. I found that netmon is
> the one who is using wrong communities to poll because the cisco agents in
> the network keep telling that netview causes authentication failure, thus
> netview doesnt discover any device due to the seed file.
>
> This is very strange to me, because i thought that the netview engine used
> the same snmp configuration that CLI commands.
>
> Another detail is that before this problem occurred, my customer changed
> the netview's IP address, so I ran reset_ci to solve the apparent problem
> but nothing happenned....
>
> What could be happening???? My last resort is to deinstall but I would like
> to solve this issue as a Netview supporter.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Federico Vidal
> IBM Certified Deployment Professional
> Tecsystem S.R.L.
> e-mail: fvidal@tecsystem.com.ar
> Tel: (5411)-4814-2770 ext. 120
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