Users Guide

Setup and Administration 63

To change the default SNMP community name used for retrieving management

information from a system running Server Administrator, edit the SNMP agent

configuration file, /etc/snmpd.conf or /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the

following steps:

Find the line that reads:

rocommunity public 127.0.0.1

Edit this line by replacing

public

with the new SNMP community

name. When edited, the new line should read:

rocommunity community_name 127.0.0.1

To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by

typing:

/etc/init.d/snmpd restart

Enabling SNMP Set Operations

Enable SNMP Set operations on the system running Server Administrator in

order to change Server Administrator attributes using IT Assistant. To enable

remote shutdown of a system from ITAssistant, enable SNMP Set operations.

NOTE: Rebooting your system for change management functionality does not

require SNMP Set operations.

To enable SNMP Set operations on the system running Server Administrator,

edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmpd.conf or

/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the following steps:

Find the line that reads:

rocommunity public 127.0.0.1

Edit this line by replacing

rocommunity

with

rwcommunity

. When

edited, the new line should read:

rwcommunity public 127.0.0.1

To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by

typing:

/etc/init.d/snmpd restart