SNMP error messages

[hfaix]

Occassionally I get the following message(s), on my console attached to an rs6000. The console is logged out and not in use when the messages appear (could be coincidence).

Date time hostname snmp[5724]: NOTICE: interface pointers changed. re-initializing interfaces

This is followed by several of these:

Date time hostname snmp[5724]:Exceptions: bad version: 1 (An IP)

I checked and the IP address listed is the ip of an NT server running a couple of apps ( Solar Winds and MapRF).

Does anyone know what these messages are and how to stop them? I am guessing it's a service running for snmp on the 6000, however maybe the NT machine is doing something to create this message.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[screwloose]

Change your logging level in snmpd.conf to 3 and you should get an IP address to help you diagnose where the problem is coming from.

 

[hfaix]

screwloose -

Will this be the same ip address I am getting to the screen currently? Logging is set to zero, I'm assuming means more details.

Do you think this means some other server is trying to connect to me?

thanks for you help,

RT

 

[screwloose]

Setting your logging level to 3 will give you more information and should (hopefully) print the IP of the machine that is broadcasting.

Then using that IP you can determine what is sending the packets to the snmp port on the AIX server. It is possible, too, that the AIX server is sending them from localhost, but I doubt that.

 

[hfaix]

Thanks for your help. I did a little looking and found that the ip address I mentioned in the originally post is some Network Monitoring Tool (Solar Winds) running on an NT machine. It's writing the same logs in /usr/tmp/snmp.log as it's displaying on my terminal. It's writing these logs to all of my rs6000s (which is what I want). Now I just need to figure out why it's actually going to the screen ( and the log ).... but only to the screen on one machine. Weird.

Thanks for your help!

 

[hfaix]

I had

# entry from NetWorker backup tool
daemon.notice /dev/console

in syslog.conf. We haven't run this tool in years


I called support and they said 4.3.3 doesn't support version 3 snmpd messages. I guess that makes sense now.

Thanks again for your help.