Owner's Manual

100 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems

• Jane enters a case-sensitive value for the

Set Community

name.

Jane’s considerations:

The

Set Community

name is a read-write password that allows access

to a managed system. SNMP agents running on the managed system

use this password for authentication when actions are attempted on

the system, only power cycle tasks use SNMP sets.

NOTE: Although Dell server instrumentation has an authentication layer

above the SNMP Set community name (which requires a host name and

password), many SNMP agents do not. Agents without this added

security layer may allow any user who knows the SNMP Set community

name to gain control of the managed system.

NOTE: IT Assistant only uses SNMP sets to power cycle systems if the

Server Administrator remote command line is not available. If SNMP

sets are not required for this purpose, do not enter an SNMP set

community name in the discovery wizard.

Jane chooses a

Set Community

name that matches the SNMP Set

community value on the system she is managing. She also makes

sure the name she chooses follows the secure password standards in

place across her enterprise.

NOTE: If you want to specify more than one SNMP Get or Set community

name in an individual discovery range (for example, one community name

for each IP subnet range), separate your community names with commas.

• Jane enters the SNMP time-out and retry values for the discovery range.

In Jane’s type of network, the default values are usually good choices.

In step 4 of the wizard, Jane configures the CIM parameters to be used

during discovery.

Since Jane has a mix of servers and client systems in her managed group

running Windows, she will configure CIM.

• Jane ensures

Enable CIM Discovery

is selected.

•In

Domain\User Name

, she enters the same name she used to

configure CIM on the managed system.

• She enters the same password she used for the CIM password on

the managed system.

NOTE: You should enable the CIM Discovery option if you want to use the

Microsoft hardware agent for IPMI in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2.