[SunHELP] SNMPDX ERRORS

[Will Melick]

This is often caused by HP OpenView doing its normal SNMP scans.

There is a way to fix it....but I don't recall how at the moment (fixed so
OpenView gets the correct info and the error message goes away).

You might want to browse through the HP IT Resource Center forums for
OpenView/Network Node Manager (NNM) if you are indeed running OV on your
network.

P.S. OV's not a bad thing...properly managed OV can keep track of tens of
thousands of nodes.  It's used by all the major ISPs.


On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Rouse wrote:

> On 4/16/01 at 8:33 AM, Ravi_Thotapalli at csaa.com wrote:
> 
> >Hi I am getting this error and I have no clue about the Electronic mail
> >stuff so could any one please help me
> >
> >thanks 
> >ravi
> >
> >Apr 16 07:38:51 fndev03 last message repeated 4 times
> >Apr 16 07:39:21 fndev03 snmpdx: error while receiving a pdu from
> >fndev03.164: Th
> >e message has a wrong version (2)
> 
> It isn't email, actually -- SNMP = Simple Network Monitoring Protocol. The
> daemon here is snmpdx, Sun Solstice Enterprise Master Agent. If you don't
> really need all this stuff, you might want to check the man pages and your
> /etc/init.d files and turn some of it off.
> 
> Either the machine is sending itself a message it doesn't quite understand
> or someone else is sending the machine a message it doesn't quite
> understand. Note -- SNMP can sometimes be a security problem and it is good
> to block it at the firewall.
> 
> -- 
> drouse
> 
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