Users Guide

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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 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
Configuring the SNMP Agent for Systems Running Supported Windows
Operating Systems
The Dell OpenManage software uses the SNMP services provided by the
Windows SNMP agent. SNMP is one of the two supported ways of
connecting to a System Administrator session; the other is CIM/WMI.
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: See your operating system documentation for additional details on SNMP
configuration.