Re: [nv-l] invalid SNMPTrap

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

I hope you are at least at Fixpack2
for 7.1.3, though FixPack3 is preferred.  That level has enhanced
diagnostics for just this kind of problem.

To get to the bottom of this, use serversetup
to make trapd run with the -x option (hex dump all packets).  Then
toggle the trapd.trace on at the command line with "trapd -T".
 You can toggle it off again the same way when you are done.  The
trace will capture the incoming packets in hex and hopefully indicate what
trapd doesn't like about them.  That may be enough for you to decide
whether the problem is with the sender or not.

If not , when you have a trapd.trace
which captures the offending traps, and a matching trapd.log, please call
IBM Support and open a problem.  Unless you propose to get a book
on SNMP and BER encoding, you'll need someone to decode the hex for you
and see what it means.

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

"Qureshi, Fawad" <Fawad.Qureshi@ssa.gov>
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08/04/2004 04:01 PM

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Subject	[nv-l] invalid SNMPTrap

NV 7.1.3 / AIX 5.1
 
Would I see following in nvevents? Any more
info on following would be appreciated. These are coming in from an application
running on a Solaris server:
 
1091647877 7  Wed Aug 04 15:31:17 2004
<none>                  
 T WARNING: invalid SNMPTrap packet from agent 172.17.111.110 source
A pid -1
1091648090 7  Wed Aug 04 15:34:50 2004
<none>                  
 T WARNING: invalid SNMPTrap packet from agent 172.17.111.110 source
A pid -1
1091648232 7  Wed Aug 04 15:37:12 2004
<none>                  
 T WARNING: invalid SNMPTrap packet from agent 172.17.111.110 source
A pid -1
 
Cheers 
 
Fawad Qureshi