Users Guide

36 Setup and Administration
These changes to the default SNMP agent configuration give read-only access
to the entire MIB tree for the public community.
NOTE: To ensure that Server Administrator is able to modify the SNMP agent
configuration to provide proper access to systems management data, it is
recommended that any other SNMP agent configuration changes be made after
installing Server Administrator.
Server Administrator SNMP communicates with the SNMP agent using the
SNMP Multiplexing (SMUX) protocol. When Server Administrator SNMP
connects to the SNMP agent, it sends an object identifier to the SNMP agent
to identify itself as a SMUX peer. Because that object identifier must be
configured with the SNMP agent, Server Administrator adds the following
line to the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, during
installation if it does not exist:
smuxpeer .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1
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