Users Guide

28 Setup and Administration
NOTE: The default SNMP agent configuration usually includes a SNMP community
name such as public. For security reasons, rename the default SNMP community
names. For information about renaming the SNMP community names, see the
appropriate section below.
NOTE: SNMP Set operations are disabled by default in Server Administrator
version 5.2 or later. Server Administrator provides support to enable or disable
SNMP Set operations in Server Administrator. You can use the Server
Administrator SNMP Configuration page under Preferences or the Server
Administrator command line interface (CLI) to enable or disable SNMP Set
operations in Server Administrator. For more information about the Server
Administrator CLI, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Command Line
Interface User's Guide.
NOTE: For IT Assistant to retrieve management information from a system running
Server Administrator, the community name used by IT Assistant must match a
community name on the system running Server Administrator. For IT Assistant to
modify information or perform actions on a system running Server Administrator,
the community name used by IT Assistant must match a community name that
allows Set operations on the system running Server Administrator. For IT Assistant
to receive traps (asynchronous event notifications) from a system running Server
Administrator, the system running Server Administrator must be configured to
send traps to the system running IT Assistant.
The following procedures provide step-by-step instructions for configuring
the SNMP agent for each supported operating system:
• “Configuring the SNMP Agent for Systems Running Supported Windows
Operating Systems" on page 29.
• “Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported Red Hat
Enterprise Linux" on page 32.
• “Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server" on page 36.
• "Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported VMware
ESX 4.X Operating Systems to Proxy VMware MIBs" on page 39.
• “Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported VMware
ESXi 4.X and ESXi 5.X Operating Systems" on page 41.
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