Users Guide

Setup and Administration 53
Changing the SNMP Community Name
Configuring the SNMP community names determines which systems are able
to manage your system through SNMP. The SNMP community name used
by systems management applications must match an SNMP community
name configured on the Server Administrator software system, so the systems
management applications can retrieve management information from Server
Administrator.
To change the 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:
1
Find the line that reads:
com2sec publicsec default public
or
com2sec notConfigUser default public
2
Edit this line, replacing public with the new SNMP community name.
When edited, the new line should read:
com2sec publicsec default community_name
or
com2sec notConfigUser default community_name
3 To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by
typing:
service snmpd restart
Enabling SNMP Set Operations
Enable SNMP Set operations on the system running Server Administrator in
order to change Server Administrator software attributes using IT Assistant.
To enable remote shutdown of a system from IT Assistant, enable SNMP
Set operations.
NOTE: Rebooting your system for change management functionality does not
require SNMP Set operations.