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You can configure the SNMP agent to change the community name, enable
Set operations, and send traps to a management station. To configure your
SNMP agent for proper interaction with management applications such as
the Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant, perform the procedures described in
the following sections.
NOTE: The default SNMP agent configuration usually includes a SNMP community
name such as public. For security reasons, change the SNMP community names
from their default values. For information about changing SNMP community names,
see the appropriate section below. For additional guidelines, see the Securing an
SNMP Environment article, dated May 2003, in the Dell Power Solutions magazine.
This magazine is also available at www.dell.com/powersolutions.
NOTE: SNMP Set operations are disabled by default in Server Administrator
version 5.2 or later. Server Administrator provides support to enable or disable
SNMP Set operations in Server Administrator. You can use the Server Administrator
SNMP Configuration page under Preferences or the Server Administrator
command line interface (CLI) to enable or disable SNMP Set operations in Server
Administrator. For more information about the Server Administrator CLI, see the
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Command Line Interface User's Guide.
NOTE: For IT Assistant to retrieve management information from a system running
Server Administrator, the community name used by IT Assistant must match a
community name on the system running Server Administrator. For IT Assistant to
modify information or perform actions on a system running Server Administrator, the
community name used by IT Assistant must match a community name that allows
Set operations on the system running Server Administrator. For IT Assistant to
receive traps (asynchronous event notifications) from a system running Server
Administrator, the system running Server Administrator must be configured to
send traps to the system running IT Assistant.
The following procedures provide step-by-step instructions for configuring
the SNMP agent for each supported operating system:
• "Configuring the SNMP Agent for Systems Running Supported Windows
Operating Systems"
• "Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported Red Hat
Enterprise Linux"
• "Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server Operating Systems"
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