Severity:Critical, Message:Authentication Failure errors

Question

Hello,   I am curious as to why lately we have been getting numerous errors such as this:   Device:*****, Service Tag:******, Asset Tag:, Date:04/23/07, Time:03:30:35:000, Severity:Critical, Message:Authentication FailureIt seems to be happening on both windows servers and unix servers. Although it doesnt seem to happen every night.  Any ideas or a place to start looking would be greatly appreciated.Thank You,SystemsTech

DELL-Siobhan K · Answer

systemstech,   Is there a message ID associated with this error message?  It looks like an SNMP message from the RAC, which indicates that the SNMP Community name on the card is incorrect or has not been set.

MarkHHenderson123 · Answer

Systemstech,   This appears to be an caused by an SNMP Authentication trap. On the Windows servers you can check/disable this in the properties of the SNMP service on the source server.  Choose the Security tab, then uncheck the 'Send Authentication Trap' checkbox.   Hope this helps! M

systemstech · Answer

All,   I have tried that check box approach and it was already unchecked so that is not the problem but I appreciate your advice.  I called Dell tech support on this issue and verified that the snmp string match the box and whats in ITA.  I will keep digging and let you guys know if find anything else out on this. Thanks again for all your thoughts!   Systems tech.

tellurye · Answer

If the trap names are correct, and with correct permissions (read write) and you've allowed from local host and the ITA server (or trap server) and the check mark is unchecked, make sure you've restarted the services. Even if its ther, you hit apply and OK, it won't take effect until the services are restarted (or server's rebooted - which I'm assuming you can't do.)

Ze Melo · Answer

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