DRAC - snmp community strings

Question

Hi All,   I have a mixture of rac3, rac4 and rac5 cards...   On the older servers, there is no option to define the community sting name within the DRACs...   I have found that the default is set to public on some but not all of them.... could someone please let me know how to set this to out own in-house community string please?   I am familiar with racadm getconfig -f etc etc....   Also, to look for multiple community strings, I know I can do this (public,private) etc ... but how do I search for NULL (as in nothing?? as I read that some dracs are set to null... I have tried ,, etc without luck.   Thanks heaps... Stuart.

DELL-Jeff M · Answer

Thanks for posting.  The DRAC3's and similar devices (ERA, ERA/O) do not have a built-in SNMP agent, so they will not have options to configure a community string.   In the RACADM manual, look at the cfgTraps group for SNMP settings, including cfgTrapsSnmpCommunity.   http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/RAC/en/racadmug/racadmug.pdf

Stooartbaby · Answer

Thanks Jeff, I will give it a go :)

Stooartbaby · Answer

Okay, it is early here and I need a coffee... : ) could I ask you to run your eyes over this and let me know if it looks right please? is this all I need to allow the default trap to be sent?

cfgTrapsDestIpAddr (Read/Write) 10.10.10.10
cfgTrapsEnable (Read/Write) 1
cfgTrapsSnmpCommunity (Read/Write) public,private

I am just after a very basic setup... not worried about dial-in etc etc...

Thanks,

Stuart

DELL-Jeff M · Answer

I think you only get one community name, not two, if you did there would be a Get and a Set community name option.  Note the description of legal values, 'A string of up to 31 ASCII characters'.  Of course, the whole command should look something like:   racadm config -g cfgTraps -o cfgTrapsDestIpAddr 10.10.10.10   Otherwise that looks reasonable.  After seeing some of the traps that come out, you might want to look into the trap filters, but I think you can do that in the GUI as well.

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