Users Guide

Setup and Administration 31
Changing the SNMP Community Name
Configuring the SNMP community name determines which management stations are able to manage
your system through SNMP. The SNMP community name used by management applications must
match the SNMP community name configured on the Server Administrator system, so the management
applications can retrieve the management information from Server Administrator.
To change the default SNMP community name used for retrieving management information from a
system running Server Administrator, edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmpd.conf or
/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the following steps:
1
Find the line that reads:
rocommunity public 127.0.0.1
2
Edit this line by replacing public with the new SNMP community name. When edited, the new line
should read:
rocommunity community_name 127.0.0.1
3
To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by typing:
/etc/init.d/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 remote shutdown of a system from
IT Assistant, SNMP Set operations must be enabled.
NOTE: Rebooting of your system for change management functionality does not require SNMP Set operations.
To enable SNMP Set operations on a system running Server Administrator, edit the SNMP agent
configuration file, /etc/snmpd.conf or /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the following steps:
1
Find the line that reads:
rocommunity public 127.0.0.1
2
Edit this line by replacing rocommunity with rwcommunity . When edited, the new line
should read:
rwcommunity public 127.0.0.1
3
To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by typing:
/etc/init.d/snmpd restart