Users Guide

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To configure your system running Server Administrator to send traps to a
management station, edit the SNMP agent configuration file,
/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the following steps:
1
Add the following line to the file:
trapsink IP_address community_name
where IP_address is the IP address of the management station and
community_name is the SNMP community name
2 To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by
typing:
service snmpd restart
Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server Operating Systems
Server Administrator uses the SNMP services provided by the ucd-snmp or
net-snmp agent. You can configure the SNMP agent to enable SNMP access
from remote hosts, change the community name, enable Set operations, and
send traps to a management station. To configure your SNMP agent for
proper interaction with management applications such as IT Assistant, perform
the procedures described in the following sections.
NOTE: On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (Version 9), the SNMP agent configuration
file is located at /etc/snmpd.conf. On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (Version 10),
the SNMP agent configuration file is located at /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.
NOTE: See your operating system documentation for additional details about
SNMP configuration.
Sever Administrator SNMP Install Actions
Server Administrator SNMP communicates with the SNMP agent using the
SNMP Multiplexing (SMUX) protocol. When Server Administrator SNMP
connects to the SNMP agent, it sends an object identifier to the SNMP agent
to identify itself as a SMUX peer. This object identifier must be configured
with the SNMP agent, therefore, Server Administrator adds the following line
to the SNMP agent configuration file (/etc/snmpd.conf or
/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf) during installation if it does not exist:
smuxpeer .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1
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