Security Keys and SNMP Community String

When you install and then set up the Sun Management Center agent on a separate machine, you are prompted to provide a password that is used to generate the security key for the agent. The password should be the same password as the password you specified during setup of the Sun Management Center server. The Sun Management Center server and agent cannot communicate with each other if the server and agent have different security keys. For information on how to regenerate security keys, see Regenerating Security Keys.

During setup, you are also prompted to either accept the default SNMP community string (public), or specify a private community string. The SNMP community string is essentially a password for a privileged internal account. As such, this string potentially can be used to mimic the server layer if used with generic SNMPv2 usec tools. Therefore, do not use the default community string. Specify a separate, private community string for each server context.

Treat the security password and the SNMP community string with the same significance as a superuser password.