Users Guide

34 Setup and Administration
Changing the SNMP Community Name
Configuring the SNMP community name determines which systems are able to
manage your system through SNMP. The SNMP community name used by
management applications must match an SNMP community name configured
on the Server Administrator system so that the management applications can
retrieve management information from Server Administrator.
To change the SNMP community name used for retrieving management
information from 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:
com2sec publicsec default public
or
com2sec notConfigUser default public
2
Edit this line, replacing public with the new SNMP community name.
When edited, the new line should read:
com2sec publicsec default community_name
or
com2sec notConfigUser default community_name
3
To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by
typing:
service snmpd restart
Configuring Your System to Send Traps to a Management Station
Server Administrator generates SNMP traps in response to changes in the
status of sensors and other monitored parameters. One or more trap
destinations must be configured on the system running Server Administrator
for SNMP traps to be sent to a management station.
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
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