event log

[JoeT_1]

I am getting a lot of new messages in our even log much like the one below. Anyone have any idea as to what this is about.


Event Details: Authentication Failure:

"An authenticationFailure trap signifies that the sending protocol entity is the addressee of a protocol message that is not properly authenticated. While implementations of the SNMP must be capable of generating this trap, they must also be capable of suppressing the emission of such traps via an implementation- specific mechanism."

[David Claypool]

What is happening is that your servers are being probed with SNMP from a station using the wrong community string. This 'authentication failure' is causing the SNMP service to send a trap to its trap destination with that information. You can disable Authentication Failure traps in the SNMP service on each machine.

[JoeT_1]

as suggested the solution worked.