Users Guide

28 Setup and Administration
Changing the SNMP Community Name
Configuring the SNMP community names determines which systems are able to manage your system
through SNMP. The SNMP community name used by management applications must match an SNMP
community name configured on the Server Administrator system so that the management applications
can retrieve management information from Server Administrator.
To change the SNMP community name used for retrieving management information from a system
running Server Administrator, edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and
perform the following steps:
1
Find the line that reads:
com2sec publicsec default public
or
com2sec notConfigUser default public
2
Edit this line, replacing public with the new SNMP community name. When edited, the new line
should read:
com2sec publicsec default community_name
or
com2sec notConfigUser default community_name
3
To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by typing:
service snmpd restart
Enabling SNMP Set Operations
SNMP Set operations must be enabled on the system running Server Administrator in order to change
Server Administrator attributes using IT Assistant.
To enable SNMP Set operations on the system running Server Administrator, edit the SNMP agent
configuration file, /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the following steps:
1
Find the line that reads:
access publicgroup "" any noauth exact all none none
or
access notConfigGroup "" any noauth exact all none none
2
Edit this line, replacing the first none with all . When edited, the new line should read:
access publicgroup "" any noauth exact all all none
or
access notConfigGroup "" any noauth exact all all none
3
To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by typing:
service snmpd restart