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Changing the SNMP Community Name
Configuring the SNMP community names 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 Dell OpenManage software system, so the management
applications can retrieve management information from Dell OpenManage software.
To change the SNMP community name used for retrieving management information from a system
running Dell OpenManage software, 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