Owner's Manual

252 Configuring Protocols to Send Information to IT Assistant

Changing 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:

Find the line that reads:

com2sec publicsec default public

com2sec notConfigUser default public

Edit this line by replacing

public

with the new SNMP community name.

When edited, the line should read:

com2sec publicsec default community_name

com2sec notConfigUser default community_name

To change the SNMP community name in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,

edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmpd.conf by performing the

following steps:

Find the line that reads:

rocommunity public 127.0.0.1

Edit this line by replacing

rocommunity

with the new SNMP

community name. When edited, the line should read:

rwcommunity public <ITA system IP address>