Device getting rediscovered with wrong credentials in snmpcollector probe
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Device getting rediscovered with wrong credentials in snmpcollector probe

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Article ID: 239734

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Products

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM) DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

There is a network device that was initially discovered with snmpv2# credentials

Then snmpv3 was configured on the device and trying to discover it with V3 profile, it is still getting discovered with V2# credentail only.

Deleted the device from OC and also from snmpcollector and tried discovering it with snmpv3 profile and it gets discovered with V2# only.

Tried adding the device manually in the snmpcollector probe profile with V3 credentials and it gets added.

Why does the device get discovered in OC with snmp V2 when trying to discover it with snmpvV3?

 

 

Environment

Release : 20.3.x ,20.4.x

Component : snmpcollector - 4.04

Resolution

Delete the device from inventory in operator console and snmpcollector gui using admin console UI

Delete the older snmp v2 credential from the discovery wizard from Operator console

Rediscover the device in snmpcollector GUI with its correct snmp v3 community string preconfigured in OC discovery wizard