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Re: [nv-l] invalid SNMPTrap

2004-08-05 09:42:07
Subject: Re: [nv-l] invalid SNMPTrap
From: James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com>
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:31:23 -0400

I hope you are at least at Fixpack2 for 7.1.3, though FixPack3 is preferred.  That level has enhanced diagnostics for just this kind of problem.

To get to the bottom of this, use serversetup to make trapd run with the -x option (hex dump all packets).  Then toggle the trapd.trace on at the command line with "trapd -T".  You can toggle it off again the same way when you are done.  The trace will capture the incoming packets in hex and hopefully indicate what trapd doesn't like about them.  That may be enough for you to decide whether the problem is with the sender or not.

If not , when you have a trapd.trace which captures the offending traps, and a matching trapd.log, please call IBM Support and open a problem.  Unless you propose to get a book on SNMP and BER encoding, you'll need someone to decode the hex for you and see what it means.

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



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NV 7.1.3 / AIX 5.1
 
Would I see following in nvevents? Any more info on following would be appreciated. These are coming in from an application running on a Solaris server:
 
1091647877 7  Wed Aug 04 15:31:17 2004 <none>                    T WARNING: invalid SNMPTrap packet from agent 172.17.111.110 source A pid -1
1091648090 7  Wed Aug 04 15:34:50 2004 <none>                    T WARNING: invalid SNMPTrap packet from agent 172.17.111.110 source A pid -1
1091648232 7  Wed Aug 04 15:37:12 2004 <none>                    T WARNING: invalid SNMPTrap packet from agent 172.17.111.110 source A pid -1
 
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Fawad Qureshi
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