Id like to change the Sun Management Center SNMP community string to something other than “public”. What do I have to do?
Halcyon recommends the following method especially if you have many agents: 1. Create a new Solaris user on your SunMC server host where the user name should be the new community string you want to use. The password doesn’t matter. 2. Add the new username to the /var/opt/SUNWsymon/cfg/esusers file on the SunMC server host. 3. Log into a SunMC console using the new user. Then exit the console. (No additional configuration has to be done after logging in). 4. Delete/disable the user account on your SunMC server host. Do not erase the name from /var/opt/SUNWsymon/cfg/esusers though. 5. Change the SNMP community string from “public” to the name of the new user you created. You do this using the Attribute Editor, in the Security tab. Note: You need to log into SunMC as a user with SunMC administrator privileges to change security attributes. Explanation: The community string “public” is actually a pre-configured user in SunMC. In order to use another commuity string you need to configure a
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