Problem identifying the source of Authentication failure

[EAnnie]

Hi
I know this is an HP Openview site but I took a chance to ask you the question anyway (because HP and netview are quite alike) .
We have netview on many servers and we have the following problem .
When netview receive a Authentication Failure we dont know how to identify the source who generate this alert.

Hope you can help me on this one

Tks

Annie

 

[kwtso]

I guess the authentication failure message trap is sent from a network device. If there is a device on your network that snmp poll your device with a wrong community, the authentication failure message will appear. You may trace the logging of that particular network device.