Users Guide

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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
Server Administrator uses the SNMP services provided by the 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: 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
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