SNMP Foundations and Concepts
8-8
Express5800/
ftServer
: System Administrator’s Guide for the Linux Operating System
3. Edit
/etc/opt/ft/snmp/snmpd.conf
and add the user to the VACM using
a current group and view or creating new ones. The following example lines add
a new user
paul
to the current view and group in
snmd.conf
by inserting the
(highlighted) line for
paul
:
group v3group usm admin
group v3group usm v3user
group v3group usm paul
view v3view included .1.3.6.1
access v3group "" usm authNoPriv exact v3view
v3view v3view
Note that this example shows that you previously ran
snmpusm
commands to
create the admin user.
4. Start SNMP and run the following two commands to clone a new user and change
the password:
#
snmpusm -v3 -u admin -n "" -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A
your_passwd
localhost create paul admin
#
snmpusm -v3 -u paul -n "" -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A
your_passwd
localhost passwd
old_passwd
new_passwd
When you run
start_snmp
, you will be able to use this user ID and password in
SNMPv3
snmpwalk
and
snmpget
commands, for example:
#
snmpwalk -v 3 -t 40 -l authNoPriv -u paul -A
new_passwd
localhost 1.3.6.1.4.1.458
Unless you plan to use SNMP to monitor the local server, you should configure SNMP
to shut down when entering runlevel 1. At any rate, SNMP daemons need to exit before
shutting the system down. It is particularly important that you shut down SNMP before
performing an
Express Builder
upgrade.
SNMP Foundations and Concepts
The Net-SNMP and ftlSNMP packages support the SNMP protocol and many of the
capabilities of SNMP for managing network objects using protocols and interface
features described in numerous Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documents.
Net-SNMP and ftlSNMP are packages for network administration that compatibly
support Express5800/
ftServer
fault-tolerant operations using standard network
communications. There are few network administration tools available that readily
support fault-tolerant capabilities of networked systems and devices. ftlSNMP
allows Express5800/
ftServer
systems to be monitored and managed by any remote-
networked system running SNMP-based network management software.
