Hi,

in the database of xnmsnmpconf the correct communitystring is stored. When
I run a snmpwalk -d it uses this communitystring. With a demandpoll public
is the communtystring.


Carsten Strahler






schafer AT tkg DOT com on 31.03.99 05:35:22

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An:   Carsten Strahler/nbg/DE
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This is really weird.  I have never seen this have a problem.

xnmsnmpconf  has some options to dump the database.  Do a man page on it,
and use the proper option to dump the database, grep for your subnet.
Make sure it is correct in the cache!  Apparently it is not!

Another possiblity is that the subnet address is also matched by another
entry in your snmp configuration.

I guess you have run snmpwalk -d <address in subnet> system ?  You can see
the community string in the debug output and verify it is not correct.


Carsten.Strahler AT nbg DOT net wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> i've tried this. I configured special communities only for this subnet.
But > Netview use always "public".
>
> Carsten Strahler
>
> schafer AT TKG DOT COM on 30.03.99 07:08:33
>
> Bitte antworten an schafer AT tkg DOT com
>
> An:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Kopie:     (Blindkopie: Carsten Strahler/nbg/DE)
> Thema:    Re: Netview uses wrong community string
>
> You need to run xnmsnmpconf and configure your read and write communities
> for your subnets.  You can use wildcards or collections to define
> communities.
>
> Carsten Strahler wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > we use Netview/AIX v5.0 and AIX 4.2.1.  We have the problem that in one
> > class-c-subnet Netivew always use the community-string "public" for
> > discovering.
> > For all other subnets it uses the default-community-string. In the
> > snmp-configuration we only have defined the default-community-string
> (i.e.
> > cisco)
> > and a special community-string for the netview. There are no
definitions > > for subnets.
> >
> > Any idea ???
> >
> > Carsten Strahler
>
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