Author: William.Stringfellow AT bankofamerica DOT com
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 09:16:24 -0800
Jeff, The behavior you describe in typical of many programs that use SNMP. The way to avoid it is in configuring the application correctly. The problems we see in our network are caused by the users
Author: "Scherting, Mark" <mscherting AT state.mt DOT us>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:13:05 -0700
Novell Managewise is the BIG culprit in our shop. Kind of infuriating isn't it? Mark Scherting State of Montana Information Technology Services Division
All, Just in case : AIX 4.3.3 ML 9 + NV 6.0 I'm trying to understand why the trapd.logs of a NetView server contain 1000s authenticationFailure traps per day. These traps are sent by both MLMs and ne
Author: Bernard Disselborg <bdisselb AT triple-p DOT nl>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:34:00 +0100
Philippe, I don't think auth failures are cause by traps. You may have another SNMP poller on your network, one of the usual suspects is HP JetAdmin software, trying to find printers using the commun
Not sure of your network environment, but we see a lot of the same thing in our network and it's caused by the latest version of Microsoft SMS software that tries to poll anything on the network that
Author: "Geoffrey Cheng/Markham/IBM" <gcheng AT ca.ibm DOT com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:18:25 -0500
I think you could install MLM on the same machine as NetView and configure MLM to forward trap to NetView's trapd (which shall be residing on port other than 162). Then you could use MLM's filter tab
Author: "IMHOFF,MICHAEL (HP-Denmark,ex1)" <michael_imhoff AT hp DOT com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:46:55 +0100
Not sure about NetView but SNMP manager often ignores community strings in traps. Another source of your authentication failure traps could be other applications using SNMP, but configured with the w
Is it possible any other snmp managers are tying to query the devices and using the wrong communities? Thought I can't recall the exact order, NetView also tries a few communities in an attempt to do
Hey Philippe, Here's something I posted a while ago that may be of help to you in trying to find the cause of the auth fail traps: Try formatting the trap as follows: Cisco_Auth_Failure {1.3.6.1.4.1.
Author: Jeff Fitzwater <jfitz AT Princeton DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:09:24 -0500
The CISCO routers, if set up correctly will show you the source in a trap. But as I mentioned in earlier mail, it is probably HP printer software on clients that use SNMP with dest of BROADCAST packe