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Re: [nv-l] Sun snmp daemon and netview

2004-03-19 11:55:36
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Sun snmp daemon and netview
From: Jane Curry <jane.curry AT skills-1st.co DOT uk>
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:48:05 +0000
I shiver whenever I have to work with the Sun SNMP agent again! There are so many bits you have to configure, none of which is well documented. I wrote a Tivoli Field Guide a couple of years back on this topic - you can get it at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg27002148

One of the things that can happen is that someone changes some community name customisation and you end up with access to the base snmpdx agent but, on Solaris, it is the mibiisa agent that answers all MIB-2 queries.

Cheers,
Jane

Qureshi, Fawad wrote:

NV 7.1.3 / AIX 5.1

Has anyone experienced any problems using Sun's snmp daemon and Netview? Especially with community names?

We have several Sun servers that we have been monitoring fine till few days back. These servers do not respond to snmpwalk or any snmp queries anymore. SNMP times out. Possible cause could be incorrect community name, but I have checked and all looks correct on both sides. I am able nmdemandpoll, TCP/SNMP connectivity etc. just fine, except SNMP requests time out.

I have done xnmsnmpconf -resolve and result is correct. Forcing community name with snmpwalk -c still results in time out due to bad community.

"Bad Community name" alerts are also being logged in Sun's syslog files.

I have seen this before as well, and always with Sun servers. Any ideas? Thanks.

**Cheers **

** **

**Fawad Qureshi**


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