Users Guide

58 Setup and Administration

To enable SNMP access from all remote hosts to a system running Server

Administrator, edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmpd.conf or

/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the following steps:

Find the line that reads:

rocommunity public 127.0.0.1

Edit this line by removing 127.0.0.1. When edited, the new line should

read:

rocommunity public

To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent

by typing:

/etc/init.d/snmpd restart

Changing the SNMP Community Name

Configuring the SNMP community name determines which systems are able to

manage your system through SNMP. The SNMP community name used by

management applications must match an SNMP community name configured

on the Server Administrator system, so the management applications can

retrieve 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/snmpd.conf or /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