Installation Manual

320 Monitoring and Alert Management
Testing the RAC SNMP Trap Alert Feature
The RAC SNMP trap alerting feature allows SNMP trap listener
configurations to receive traps for system events that occur on the
managed system.
The following example shows how a user can test the SNMP trap alert feature
of the RAC.
racadm testtrap -i 2
Before you test the RAC SNMP trap alerting feature, ensure that the SNMP
and trap settings are configured correctly. To configure these settings, see
testtrap and testemail subcommand descriptions in the RACADM Command
Line Reference Guide for iDRAC6 and CMC available on the Dell Support
website at dell.com/support/manuals.
Frequently Asked Question about SNMP
Authentication
Why is the following message displayed:
Remote Access: SNMP Authentication Failure
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 iDRAC6 agent is public. When IT Assistant sends out a set
request, the iDRAC6 agent generates the SNMP authentication error because
it will only accept requests from community = public.
NOTE: This is the SNMP agent community name.
You can change the iDRAC6 community name using RACADM.
To see the iDRAC6 community name, use the following command:
racadm getconfig -g cfgOobSnmp
To set the iDRAC6 community name, use the following command:
racadm config -g cfgOobSnmp -o
cfgOobSnmpAgentCommunity <community name>