OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Configuring the Collection Station

The SNMP daemon's read/write community string must be explicitly configured in the /etc/snmpd.conf file, as shown here:

get-community-name:     public 
set-community-name:     secret 

Choose your own community string for the set-community-name, but please—leave the get-community-name as public. Also, make sure you don’t disturb the file permissions (it should be 400 and owned by root). You should stop and restart the /usr/sbin/snmpdm daemon so that it reads the changes you made to the /etc/snmpd.conf file.

The topology filter, which applies to all database objects exported from the collection station, must be configured. The file $OV_CONF/ C/filters should contain an entry which contains:

 NetBackbone "Networks and ...