Re: [nv-l] Authentication Failure Traps Root Cause Question

[Paul Stroud <pstroud@bellsouth.net>]

Are there any other NMS's running around, we see this quite often were
a rogue group is running thier own NMS. The best way to check this is
to trace the SNMP agent on the device itself and see if you can determine
where the requests are originating. 

Paul



On Monday 08 December 2003 11:19, you wrote:
> NetView 7.1.3 AIX 4.3.3
>
> I am getting a lot of these events in my trapd.log for different nodes and
> I am a bit confused. I know this is probably a basic question but what is
> the root cause for these events? It appears that I have the community names
> configured correctly in xnmsnmpconf so I am at a loss here. It is probably
> a concept that I am missing.
>
> nodea.pepsi.com  A Incorrect Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap)
> enterprise:ENTERPRISES (1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.2) args(0):
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Bursik
> PepsiCo Business Solution Group