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7 To add a trap destination for a trap community, select the community name from the Community
Name
drop-down menu and click Add .
The
SNMP Service Configuration window appears.
8 Type the trap destination and click Add .
The
SNMP Service Properties window appears.
9 Click OK to save the changes.
Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported
Red Hat Linux Operating Systems
Managed system agents such as Server Administrator use the SNMP services provided by the ucd-snmp
or net-snmp SNMP agent. You can configure the SNMP agent to change the community name, enable Set
operations, and send traps to an IT Assistant system. To configure your SNMP agent for proper interaction
with IT Assistant, perform the procedures described in the following sections.
NOTE: See your operating system documentation for additional details on SNMP configuration.
Change the SNMP Community Name
Correctly configuring SNMP community names determines which IT Assistant services systems are able
to communicate with managed systems in your network. The SNMP community name used by IT
Assistant must match an SNMP community name configured on a managed system so that IT Assistant
can successfully read from, write to, and perform actions on managed systems in your network.
To change the SNMP community name, edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf,
by performing the following steps:
1
Find the line that reads:
com2sec publicsec default public
or
com2sec notConfigUser default public
2
Edit this line by replacing public with the new SNMP community name. When edited, the line
should read:
com2sec publicsec default community_name
or
com2sec notConfigUser default community_name