[SNMP4J] Getting Authentication Failure in V3 snmpget

Frank Fock fock at agentpp.com
Sun Sep 27 22:42:15 CEST 2009


Pradip,

Have you assigned the user "<userName>" to your group
"v3group"?

Regards,
Frank

pradip de wrote:
> Hi,
> I am getting an authentication failure when I do a SNMPGet for version 3 by
> using
> snmpwalk -v 3 -n "" -u <userName> -a MD5 -A "AuthPassword" -x DES -X
> "PrivacyPassword" -l authPriv localhost <OID>.
> The response I get is snmpget: Authentication failure (incorrect password,
> community or key).
> I checked the username , password are correctly set at the snmp agent for
> both Auth and Priv.
> The pertinent addViews() method code for the vacm view in the agent code is
> as below.
> 
> vacm.addAccess(new OctetString("v3group"), new OctetString(),
>                 SecurityModel.SECURITY_MODEL_USM,
>                 SecurityLevel.AUTH_PRIV, VacmMIB.vacmExactMatch,
>                 new OctetString("fullReadView"),
>                 new OctetString("fullWriteView"),
>                 new OctetString("fullNotifyView"),
>                 StorageType.nonVolatile);
>  vacm.addViewTreeFamily(new OctetString("fullReadView"), new OID("1.3"),
>                 new OctetString(), VacmMIB.vacmViewIncluded,
>                 StorageType.nonVolatile);
> vacm.addViewTreeFamily(new OctetString("fullWriteView"), new OID("1.3"),
>                 new OctetString(), VacmMIB.vacmViewIncluded,
>                 StorageType.nonVolatile);
> vacm.addViewTreeFamily(new OctetString("fullNotifyView"), new OID("1.3"),
>                 new OctetString(), VacmMIB.vacmViewIncluded,
>                 StorageType.nonVolatile);
> 
> I would really appreciate if somebody can point out what I could be possibly
> doing wrong and if I am missing something which I should check.
> 
> thanks,
> Pradip
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