HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 3.X Document Addendum (AA-RW24A-TE, January 2005)
Diagnostic and system error messages reference guide
78 Fabric OS 3.x Document Addendum
AUTH-AUTHERROR
Message
Probable Cause
An ERROR-level authentication failure occurred. The text message displays more
information about the failure that occurred.
General authentication errors:
■ Authentication is rejected because the other side does not support authentication or a
required protocol.
■ Internal error due to data mismatch or corruption.
■ Various error types that relate to authentication configuration file such as empty file,
corruption file, or nonexistent file.
■ Failed to get information for authentication entry such as port or switch.
■ Failed to get security license.
■ Failed to validate switch or port name.
■ Disabled port due to unauthorized switch that is not configured in the SCC policy.
Specific FCAP/SLAP authentication errors:
■ Failed to retrieve switch certificate.
■ Failed to sign data for FCAP/SLAP authentication messages.
■ Incorrect length or content in the FCAP/SLAP authentication payload, such as nonce
length, signature length, or certificate length.
■ Failed to verify different types of authentication messages (for example, certificate,
nonce, or signature data) for FCAP/SLAP authentication protocol.
Specific DH-CHAP authentication errors:
■ Failed to update/remove secret database when using secAuthSecret command.
■ Failed to retrieve secret value.
■ Failed to generate various values for DH-CHAP authentication messages, such as DH
group, hash value, challenge message, or response value.
■ Incorrect length or content in the authentication payload, such as challenge length, DH
group length, hash list length, or response length.
■ Failed to verify different types of authentication messages (for example, reply or
success) for DH-CHAP authentication protocol.
Recommended Action
For a security license error, make sure that the security license is properly installed, using the
licenseshow command. Reinstall the license, if necessary, using the licenseadd
command.
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ERROR AUTH-AUTHERROR, 2, <text message>