**CMK version:**2.2.0p24 **OS version:**Appliance 1.6.8 Error message: API Error:Decryption of SNMPv3 password failed. Hello, I get this error message every time when I run it with a new snmp host connection test. It appears directly on all check windows, so I guess it is an internal checkmk err…

You might want to get started by telling folks, how your hosts are configured exactly. Just posting the error probably does not enable anyone to help.

[image] API Error:Decryption of SNMPv3 password failed. Troubleshooting I have the same issue since today. Ubuntu 20.04, self hosted. CMK 2.2p26 [grafik]

Same problem here since the last CMK update (now on vers. Checkmk Enterprise Edition 2.3.0p31). The Problem is just if the “save and run coinnection test” and there the “SNMPv3 credentials” is used. No Problem if those parameters were set in the SNMP-Rule “SNMP credentials of monitored hosts”.

Experiencing the same problem here as well. We’re running 2.4.0p1 on an appliance (v.1.7.10) as well as on AlmaLinux VMs with distributed monitoring. As @Josef mentioned, it only seems to happen in the “Run Connection Tests” page when you specify credentials there. If you define credentials via th…

still no fix ? Got the same problem with 2.4.0p21 … Josef

Test connection always ends with "API Error:Decryption of SNMPv3 password failed."

Troubleshooting

KluthR (Robin Kluth) July 25, 2024, 10:12am 3