Users Guide

Setup and Administration 55
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
systems management applications must match an SNMP community name
configured on the Server Administrator software system, so the systems
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