Users Guide

Configuring the DRAC 5 Using the Web User Interface 95
The following message is displayed for
unknown reasons:
Remote Access: SNMP
Authentication Failure
Why does this happen?
As part of discovery, IT Assistant attempts to verify the
device’s get and set community names. In IT Assistant,
you have the get community name = public and the set
community name = private. By default, the community
name for the DRAC 5 agent is public. When IT
Assistant sends out a set request, the DRAC 5 agent
generates the SNMP authentication error because it will
only accept requests from community = public.
You can change the DRAC 5 community name using
RACADM.
To see the DRAC 5 community name, use the following
command:
racadm getconfig -g cfgOobSnmp
To set the DRAC 5 community name, use the following
command:
racadm config -g cfgOobSnmp -o
cfgOobSnmpAgentCommunity <community
name>
To prevent SNMP authentication traps from being
generated, you must input community names that will
be accepted by the agent. Since the DRAC 5 only allows
one community name, you must input the same get and
set community name for IT Assistant discovery setup.
Table 4-43. Managing and Recovering a Remote System: Frequently Asked Questions
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