Re: [nv-l] SNMP authentication error at the NV Server

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

communitynames.conf does not guarantee that you will not get community name
failures; it just gives netmon a list of others to try if the first one
fails. netmon should store the one that succeeds during discovery.  But all
bets are off if the community name for your server itself is not correct in
the ovsnmp.conf database.  It  should have the preferred community name for
your NetView server and also for the loopback address 127.0.0.1 as a
separate entries unless they match what you have for the global default..
I'd use xnmsnmpconf to set them up correctly if you need to.

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


                                                                           
             Mario Behring                                                 
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Hi list,

I am getting the following error at the NV event viewer:

Wed Jul 06 13:53:32 2005 nvserver         A IBM Incorrect Community Name
(authenticationFailure Trap)
SPECIFIC   : 0 (hex: 0)
GENERIC    : 4
CATEGORY   : Node Configuration Events
ENTERPRISE : ibm  1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.1.2.1.1.3
SOURCE     : Agent (A)
HOSTNAME   : nvserver
SEVERITY   : Warning


...and, at the /usr/tmp/snmpd.log file:

07/06/05 13:34:03 EXCEPTIONS: authentication error: invalid community
name: communityname1
07/06/05 13:34:08 EXCEPTIONS: authentication error: invalid community
name: communityname1
07/06/05 13:38:02 EXCEPTIONS: authentication error: invalid community
name: communityname2
07/06/05 13:38:03 EXCEPTIONS: authentication error: invalid community
name: communityname3
07/06/05 13:39:11 EXCEPTIONS: authentication error: invalid community
name: communityname3


The NV is version 7.1.4 running on an AIX 5.2 box. The communityNames.conf
file at /usr/OV/conf has 5 different community names on it, including the
one from the NV server.

The errors that are showing up at the snmpd.log file shows exactly the
community names that were typed into the communityNames.conf file.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

Mario



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