RE: [nv-l] Teach me to fish

["Stamper, Steve" <sstamper@foremost.com>]

Good idea - this one I'm going to chase.  I'll let everyone know what I find.

Thanks for the thought.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]On
Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:09 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Teach me to fish

Steve,
Increase your loglevel to 3(debug, I think) and increase the size of
the file, both in the snmpd.conf file. Then restart snmp and watch
the log. I should think you should get some good information from
that.

Paul

Stamper, Steve wrote:

> I've got a rather strange problem and hopefully someone can give me a
> clue where to start digging.
>
> I have an AIX 5.1 system that has the NetView agent installed and
> working just fine.  The problem is that I am constantly (6-7 per
> minute) getting traps (RPT below) from this server.  I have run
> TCPDUMP (external and loopback) and verified that queries with the
> wrong community string are NOT coming in - hence it something internal
> to the box.  I have disabled the NetView agent and the problem
> continues.  I have disabled SNMP and of course it stops.  Hence it's
> something IN the box.
>
> Any idea how I can start digging into this problem?
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
> === TRAP.RPT =========================================================
> DESCRIPTION : Mon Aug 23 08:38:53 2004 puxbmra1        A IBM Incorrect
>          Community Name (authenticationFailure Trap)
> NOTES       :
> INFO        :
>                 HOSTNAME   : puxbmra1
>                 ENTERPRISE : ibm 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.1.2.1.1.3
>                 GENERIC    : 4
>                 SPECIFIC   : 0
>                 LOGGEDTIME : 08/23/04 08:38:53
>                 SEVERITY   : Warning
>                 CATEGORY   : Node Configuration Events
>                 SOURCE     : Agent (A)
>