[SNMP4J] Getting Authentication Failure in V3 snmpget

[pradip de]

Thanks Frank. Your hint helped solve my problem. The authentication protocol
I had in my addusmuser() method was SHA and I was using MD5 for the
snmpwalk. Changing that solved my problem.

regards,
Pradip

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:

> 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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