SNMP Foundations and Concepts8-8 Express5800/ftServer: System Administrator’s Guide for the Linux Operating System3. Edit /etc/opt/ft/snmp/snmpd.conf and add the user to the VACM usinga current group and view or creating new ones. The following example lines adda new user paul to the current view and group in snmd.conf by inserting the(highlighted) line for paul:group v3group usm admingroup v3group usm v3usergroup v3group usm paulview v3view included .1.3.6.1access v3group "" usm authNoPriv exact v3viewv3view v3viewNote that this example shows that you previously ran snmpusm commands tocreate the admin user.4. Start SNMP and run the following two commands to clone a new user and changethe password:# snmpusm -v3 -u admin -n "" -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -Ayour_passwd localhost create paul admin# snmpusm -v3 -u paul -n "" -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A your_passwdlocalhost passwd old_passwd new_passwdWhen you run start_snmp, you will be able to use this user ID and password inSNMPv3 snmpwalk and snmpget commands, for example:# snmpwalk -v 3 -t 40 -l authNoPriv -u paul -A new_passwdlocalhost 1.3.6.1.4.1.458Unless you plan to use SNMP to monitor the local server, you should configure SNMPto shut down when entering runlevel 1. At any rate, SNMP daemons need to exit beforeshutting the system down. It is particularly important that you shut down SNMP beforeperforming an Express Builder upgrade.SNMP Foundations and ConceptsThe Net-SNMP and ftlSNMP packages support the SNMP protocol and many of thecapabilities of SNMP for managing network objects using protocols and interfacefeatures described in numerous Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documents.Net-SNMP and ftlSNMP are packages for network administration that compatiblysupport Express5800/ftServer fault-tolerant operations using standard networkcommunications. There are few network administration tools available that readilysupport fault-tolerant capabilities of networked systems and devices. ftlSNMPallows Express5800/ftServer systems to be monitored and managed by any remote-networked system running SNMP-based network management software.
