Users Guide

Setup and Administration 43
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
Enable SNMP Set operations 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, enable SNMP Set
operations.
NOTE: Rebooting your system for change management functionality does not
require SNMP Set operations.
To enable SNMP Set operations on the 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