Users Guide

Setup and Administration 51
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: In Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 5.3 and later, SNMP Set
Operations are disabled by default in Server Administrator. Server Administrator
provides support to enable or disable SNMP Set operations. You can use the Server
Administrator SNMP Configuration page under Preferences or the Server
Administrator command line interface (CLI) to enable or disable SNMP Set
Operations. For more information on enabling or disabling SNMP Set operations in
Server Administrator, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User’s Guide
or the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Command Line Interface User's
Guide. These guides are available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com
and on the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD.
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