Users Guide

Setup and Administration 37

Changing the SNMP Community Name

Configuring the SNMP community name determines which management

stations are able to manage your system through SNMP. The SNMP

community name used by management applications must match the SNMP

community name configured on the Server Administrator system, so the

management applications can retrieve the management information from

Server Administrator.

To change the default SNMP community name used for retrieving

management information from a system running Server Administrator,

edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform

the following steps:

Find the line that reads:

rocommunity public 127.0.0.1

Edit this line by replacing

public

with the new SNMP community

name. When edited, the new line should read:

rocommunity community_name 127.0.0.1

To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by

typing:

/etc/init.d/snmpd restart

Enabling SNMP Set Operations

SNMP Set operations must be enabled on the system running Server

Administrator in order to change Server Administrator attributes using

IT Assistant. To enable remote shutdown of a system from IT Assistant,

SNMP Set operations must be enabled.

NOTE: Rebooting of your system for change management functionality does not

require SNMP Set operations.

To enable SNMP Set operations on a system running Server Administrator,

edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform

the following steps:

Find the line that reads:

rocommunity public 127.0.0.1

Edit this line by replacing

rocommunity

with

rwcommunity

When edited, the new line should read:

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