How to configure SNMP in AIX 6.1?

[Need2BaGeek]

Hello everyone,
I've recently been assigned to a project building and administering a new AIX 6.1 environment at work. I'm very new to AIX and have been signed up for training starting in May '09, but in the meantime I am having difficulty configuring SNMP.

Here's a rough outline of the environment:
I have three JS12 blades in our Blade Center
Each blade has VIO installed
I built a NIM server and "golden image" server
Using a mksysb of golden image, created LPARs with NIM

I am now trying to configure SNMP for the first time on AIX and I can't believe how convoluted the information is. Nothing explains clearly how AIX uses SNMP or how to configure it. I first ran ls -altr /usr/sbin/snmpd and it shows that it's pointed to snmpd version 3.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 9 Dec 30 10:31 /usr/sbin/snmpd -> snmpdv3ne

I then edited /etc/snmpd.conf to replace "public" with our real community name. I saved snmpd.conf and stopped/started snmpd but our monitoring tool (HP OpenView) is still not discovering the server.

Can anyone help me out or at least point me to some decent documentation on this? Sorry if I seem helpless, but I come from a Windows server background so this is all very new and confusing to me.

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[MoreFeo]

SNMP V3 uses /etc/snmpdv3.conf.

Here you can get some documentation:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...ix.commadmn/doc/commadmndita/snmpv3_intro.htm

 

[Need2BaGeek]

Thanks. The document has a bunch of info about setting up users, security, views, etc. Is that all really necessary? I'm trying to keep this simple. Can I just configure the community in /etc/snmpdv3.conf and it will work?