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pgordon
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3 months ago

Excessive snmp requests with a community string I am not using

I have some switches that are getting hammered by a few of my collectors and I can't figure out why. The logs on them are full of this message: snmp: ST1-CMDR: Security access violation from <Col...
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pgordon
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3 months ago

Okay I figured this out and it was a housekeeping thing on my part - I was able to find that I had these switches in my portal a second time using a different IP. They weren't in my hierarchy and had no community string set, I deleted them and now the messages are gone.
Thanks everyon!