This customer (doe.gov) is very worried about security. My system
support counterpart is required to develop the minimum version of Red
Hat 4 (no unneeded packages) with the latest possible fixes. A problem
occurred which was manifested as an inability of Netmon to connect to
SNMP. The Netmon trace showed this message:
Cannot communicate with SNMP Agent via loopback address
(127.0.0.1); it is
either not running or has been configured with a community name
different
from that configured into Tivoli NetView for this system. If a
community name has
been configured into the SNMP Agent, that community name must be
configured
via xnmsnmpconf and /usr/OV/conf/ovsnmp.conf for address
127.0.0.1 as well
as for the hostname or IP address of this system.
Or, the /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib and /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib.bin files
are corrupted
and need to be rebuilt using the
Maintain->Rebuild MIB binary file with installation MIB defaults
option in NetView configuration menu
That was not the problem. Here is the note sent when he isolated the
problem. He rebuilt the system and added packages and patches until we
got the failure then backed them out to verify the fix.
The packages which apparently caused us the problems were the
net-snmp
and net-snmp-libs. It might be just one of them, but I removed
and
re-installed them in tandem.
Working version
net-snmp-libs-5.1.2-11.EL4.7
net-snmp-5.1.2-11.EL4.7
The problem came with these bug fix packages.
net-snmp-libs5.1.2-11.EL4.10.i386.rpm
net-snmp-5.1.2-11.EL4.10.i386.rpm
Bill Evans
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