! This will not solve your problem !

If you would like to supress traps for a node so you can -use- your system
while you are fixing the problem, you can update your netmon.seed with the
following line:

!MyNode1
!MyNode2
!MyNodeX

If you do not have a netmon.seed I recommend reading up on it in your
manuals.  What I do is create a netmon.seed file in /usr/OV/conf.  Then I
run Framework to configure the seed file for Netview.  There is complete
documentation on this in manuals.

Best of luck,

Jason Allison
Principal Engineer
ARINC Incorporated
Office:  (410) 266-2006
FAX:  (410) 573-3026


-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:24 AM
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] URGENT - trap flood


Then all I can do is suggest that you call Support.

I can tell you that you there were problems in this area if you are using 
smartsets to group community names prior to 6.0.3

I have told you every thing I know.  I don't support netmon or 
xnmsnmpconf, so please send your replies to the list so that others may 
respond.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
 





"Brian Green" <brian.green AT cgi DOT ca>
04/24/2002 08:17 AM

 
        To:     James Shanks/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
        cc: 
        Subject:        RE: [nv-l] URGENT - trap flood

 

James, I have done this - the requests are coming from NV.  And the
communityNames.conf file is empty, except for comments.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:53 AM
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] URGENT - trap flood


Go to /etc/snmpd.conf and edit the logging level entry to say level=3
instead of level=0.  This will cause snmpd to trace what he gets to the
file specified in the other logging entry.  If you don't like the location
you can change it there.  Once you have the trace going it will tell you
where the bad requests are coming from and what community name is being
used.

Check also /usr/OV/conf/communityNames.conf.  If you put other names in
here, then netmon will try them when it is time for new node discovery

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group





                      "Brian Green"
                      <brian.green@cgi.        To:       "Netview Mailing
List" <nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>
                      ca>                      cc:
                                               Subject:  [nv-l] URGENT -
trap flood
                      04/24/02 07:40 AM





HELP!!!

I am receiving a flood of authenticationFailure traps from the NetView
server OS to the netview trapd - it is making Netview unusable due to the
very high rate at which they are coming in.  I have checked the community
string settings for both /etc/snmpd.conf and xnmsnmpconf - they match. And
I have stopped and started snmpd to make sure that the current settings
take.  Is there anywhere else that NetView or AIX (NV is running on AIX
4.3.3) hides the community string that I need to look at?  Right now I 
have
NV turned off - until I can resolve this it has to stay that way!

Thanks,

Brian

Brian W. Green
Consultant
CGI InfoSec COE
CGI Information Systems and Management Consulting
275 Slater Street, 14th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5H9
(613) 234-2155
brian.green AT cgi DOT ca


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