Microsoft KB Archive/179565

= SMS: Unable To Generate Traps For Dr. Watson Events =

Article ID: 179565

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q179565



SYMPTOMS
When you use the Systems Management Server SNMP Trap Translator to monitor Dr. Watson traps, the Windows NT Application Event Log may fill up with error message 3006 events. This causes the Windows NT Application Event Log to fill up and overwrite older data.



CAUSE
An application on the server stops responding, which causes a Dr. Watson message to be written to the event log. The data portion of this Dr. Watson Event Log message is very large. The SNMP Event Log Extension Agent (SNMPELEA) tries to read the message to determine whether the message is something that it should be trapping on. Because SNMPELEA does not provide a buffer large enough to hold the Dr. Watson Event Log message, it generates an error 3006.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.2. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. service pack for Systems Management Server version 1.2. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodsms crash crashes hang hangs SNMP SNMPELEA

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbfix kbsnmp KB179565

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