Owner's Manual

264 Configuring Protocols to Send Information to IT Assistant
Configuring SNMP Agent on Managed Systems
Running Supported Linux Operating Systems
This section describes the configuration of SNMP agents on systems
running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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.
NOTE: See the VMware Basic Administration Guide at support.dell.com/manuals
for information on configuring SNMP agent on managed systems running ESX
Server.
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:
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