Re: [nv-l] Community Name

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

But NetView isn't reading /etc/snmp.conf
on your box when he polls remote devices; he has his own database for that.

The first thing to do is to try an snmpwalk
of the your NetView box to see whether it is defined correctly using the
default community name.  From a command line enter:
        snmpwalk
<netview box name>
If that works then try one of your problem
servers
        snmpwalk
<aix server>
If it doesn't work, and time-out, then
try it with what you think is the correct community name for that server:
        snmpwalk
-c <community string> <aix server>
If that works, then you need to update
the ovsnmp.conf database with the correct community string.  Use
        xnmsnmpconf


James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

"Kevin Campbell" <kcampbell@tgen.org>
Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com

04/08/2004 03:52 PM

Please respond to
nv-l

To	<nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>
cc
Subject	[nv-l] Community Name

I am seeing the following
warnings in the NV server events
     
      
A IBM Incorrect Community
Name (authenticationFailure Trap)
     
      
This error is coming
from a number of my AIX servers. I have looked at the /etc/snmp.conf file
and everything looks to be setup properly. Has anyone else seen these types
of warnings? And what was the fix?
 
Netview 7.1.3
AIX 5.1
 
Thanks in advance
KevinC