Users Guide

62 Setup and Administration
To enable SNMP access from a specific remote host to a system running
Server Administrator, edit the SNMP agent configuration file,
/etc/snmpd.conf or /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the following steps:
1
Find the line that reads:
rocommunity public 127.0.0.1
2
Edit or copy this line, replacing 127.0.0.1 with the remote host IP address.
When edited, the new line should read:
rocommunity public IP_address
NOTE: You can enable SNMP access from multiple specific remote hosts by
adding a
rocommunity directive for each remote host.
3 To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by
typing:
/etc/init.d/snmpd restart
To enable SNMP access from all remote hosts to a system running Server
Administrator, edit the SNMP agent configuration file, /etc/snmpd.conf or
/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and perform the following steps:
1
Find the line that reads:
rocommunity public 127.0.0.1
2
Edit this line by removing 127.0.0.1. When edited, the new line should
read:
rocommunity public
3
To enable SNMP configuration changes, restart the SNMP agent by
typing:
/etc/init.d/snmpd restart
Changing the SNMP Community Name
Configuring the SNMP community name determines which systems are able to
manage your system through SNMP. The SNMP community name used by
management applications must match an SNMP community name configured
on the Server Administrator system, so the management applications can
retrieve management information from Server Administrator.