Users Guide

50 Setup and Administration
You can configure the SNMP agent to 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: The default SNMP agent configuration usually includes an SNMP
community name such as public. For security reasons, change the default SNMP
community names. For information about changing SNMP community names, see
the appropriate section below for your operating system. For additional guidelines,
see the Securing an SNMP Environment article, dated May 2003, in the Dell Power
Solutions magazine. This magazine is also available at
www.dell.com/powersolutions.
NOTE: For IT Assistant to retrieve systems 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. For more information, see the
Dell OpenManage IT Assistant User’s Guide.
The following sections 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
• Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Operating Systems
• Configuring the SNMP Agent on Systems Running Supported SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server Operating Systems