This chapter covers the installation and configuration of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC MIB software. For information about administering SNMP, see the snmpd.conf(5) man page on the open source community web site http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/man/.
After you install and configure the Oracle VM Server for SPARC MIB software, you must create Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) version 3 (v3) users to provide secure access to the Oracle Solaris SNMP agent. For SNMP version 1 (v1) and version 2 (v2c), the access control mechanism is the community string, which defines the relationship between an SNMP server and its clients. This string controls the client access to the server similar to a password controlling a user's access to a system.