Users Guide

34 Setup and Administration
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: 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
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/snmp/snmpd.conf) during installation if it does not
exist:
smuxpeer .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1
Enabling SNMP Access From Remote Hosts
The default SNMP agent configuration on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
operating systems gives read-only access to the entire MIB tree for the public
community from the local host only. This configuration does not allow SNMP
management applications such as IT Assistant running on other hosts to
discover and manage Server Administrator systems properly. If Server
Administrator detects this configuration during installation, it logs a message
to the operating system log file, /var/log/messages, to indicate that SNMP
access is restricted to the local host. You must configure the SNMP agent to
enable SNMP access from remote hosts if you plan to manage the system by
using SNMP management applications from remote hosts.
NOTE: For security reasons, it is advisable to restrict SNMP access to specific
remote hosts if possible.
To enable SNMP access from a specific remote host to 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:
rocommunity public 127.0.0.1
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