Users Guide

126 Configuring the DRAC 5 Using the Web User Interface
The following message is displayed
for unknown reasons:
Remote Access: SNMP
Authentication Failure
Why does this happen?
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 DRAC 5 agent is
public. When IT Assistant sends out a set
request, the DRAC 5 agent generates the
SNMP authentication error because it will
only accept requests from community =
public.
You can change the DRAC 5 community
name using RACADM.
To see the DRAC 5 community name, use
the following command:
racadm getconfig -g
cfgOobSnmp
To set the DRAC 5 community name, use
the following command:
racadm config -g cfgOobSnmp
-o cfgOobSnmpAgentCommunity
<community name>
To prevent SNMP authentication traps
from being generated, you must input
community names that will be accepted by
the agent. Since the DRAC 5 only allows
one community name, you must input the
same get and set community name for
IT Assistant discovery setup.
Table 4-46. Managing and Recovering a Remote System:
Frequently Asked Questions
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