Re: [nv-l] Authentication failures coming from Netview

[Mark Sklenarik <marksk@us.ibm.com>]

Craig,
It sounds has if NetView is searching
again for the correct community name to use for the device. But if the
device is already discovered and in the xnmsnmpconf view, then it should
not be looking for the community again.  There are a couple of application
in addition to netmon (polling/discovery/status) that use a community name,
snmpCollect, mib applications, and mib browser.
Is the device listed in the xnmsnmpconf
view?
Could there be another application on
same box that is also making snmp request?
Do you have a /usr/OV/conf/communitynames
file listing multiple community names?
Is the community name used for the sysUptime
request list in the community names file?
Was the community name used for sysUptime
request "public"?
Run a "netmon -a 160" and
a "netmon -a 175", then check the /usr/OV/log/netmon.trace file
for the output from commands. The option of 175 will output a listing of
all the nodes known to NetView and the polling parameters defined for the
node.  Is the correct community name listed?
Is snmpCollect configured to collect
data from this node?


Mark F Sklenarik 
 IBM SWG Tivoli Solutions 
 Quality Assurance 
  Business Impact Management and Event Correlation
 Software Quality Engineer
 IBM Corporation

"Treptow, Craig" <Treptow.Craig@principal.com>
Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com

12/31/2004 11:54 AM

Please respond to
nv-l

To	"NetView List \(E-mail\)" <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>
cc
Subject	[nv-l] Authentication failures coming from Netview

Hi.  We are running Netview 7.1.4 on AIX 5.1
with these patches:

FixPack1, IY50663, IY51641, IY52429, IY54434, IY56958, IY60528

We have some routers that send authentication failure traps denoting Netview's
IP address.

I ran a capture this morning and caught Netview using the correct community
strings for this device in all cases, except one instance.  It tried
to get sysUptime 3 times with the wrong string and then switched to the
correct string.

The SNMP config is correct, and demandpolls and quicktests work correctly.

What would cause Netview to query periodically using the wrong strings?
 

Thanks for any help!

Craig



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