RE: [nv-l] Authentication failure traps from Windows clients

["Glen Warn" <Glen.Warn@pemcocorp.com>]

Hi Drew,

 

I will definitely check into this but since I've sent this message I've drawn closer (I think) to solving this issue.  As it turns out, the boxes giving me grief all turned out to be HP/Compaq Proliants - running various versions of Insight Manager Agents.  I am trying to unlock the last missing piece of this puzzle by reading up on Insight Mgr.  In the short term, I can either stop the services (not desirable) or temporarily disable the Auth Failure trap until I can ID the issue (the path I'm taking)  Fortunately, it's less than 50 servers.

 

If anyone else has any ideas along these line, they'd be greatly appreciated.

 

Glen Warn

PEMCO Corporation Computer Services (PCCS)

glen.warn@pemcocorp.com

206-628-5770

 

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From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On Behalf Of Van Order, Drew (US - Hermitage)
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:04 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Authentication failure traps from Windows clients

I just finished cleaning something like this up last week. Your Windows servers are sending traps to the NV box and something's not matching so NV is creating authentication traps. You'll be able to poll fine because that's not the issue. Is the NV server trapping itself? In our case it was internal to the NV box and the NV server was trapping itself every 5 seconds. There was a mismatch between snmpd.conf and snmpd.peers. 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On Behalf Of Glen Warn
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:40 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: [nv-l] Authentication failure traps from Windows clients

Running 7.1.4 FP3 on Redhat AS2.1

I am being bombarded with auth failure traps from some of my Windows 200x servers  (not even a majority).  Odd part is I can do a demand poll and run a sniffer trace at the same time.  I see the poll run successfully (using the appropriate RO community string) then the same server issue an auth failure trap back to Netview (I have all my servers set to do this so I can detect rogue queries)  None of my traces reveal any other boxes trying to run queries (what I had assumed in the beginning)

 

I think this has been happening for a long time (all along?) but just became aware of a big problem because I accidentally hidden from myself thru event configuration (setting to "Don't display or Log") that I used a long time ago to debug something but never reverted. 

 

Any ideas?  I have tried changing the comm strings to something basic, put in a host specific snmp config, etc.  The devices are scattered across 5 different companies and dozens of subnets.

 

In the mean time, I believe this flood of traps is severely hampering Netviews ability to process other traps (because there are so many coming in non-stop)

 

Glen Warn

PEMCO Corporation Computer Services (PCCS)

glen.warn@pemcocorp.com

206-628-5770

 

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