SNMP community name and Clinfo

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The version of the /etc/snmpd.conf file depends on which version of AIX® you are using. For AIX the default version used in PowerHA® SystemMirror® is the snmpdv3.conf file.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) community name used by PowerHA SystemMirror depends on the version of SNMP you are running on your system. The SNMP community name is determined as follows:
  • If your system is running SNMP V1, the community name is the first name found that is not private or system in the output of the lssrc -ls snmpd command.
  • If your system is running SNMP V3, the community name is found in the VACM_GROUP entry in the /etc/snmpdv3.conf file.

The Clinfo service still supports the -c option for specifying SNMP Community Name but its use is not required. Using of the -c option is considered a security risk because running a ps command could find the SNMP Community Name.

Note: It is important to keep the SNMP Community Name protected in Clinfo, change permissions on /tmp/hacmp.out, /etc/snmpd.conf, /smit.log and /usr/tmp/snmpd.log to not be world readable (for example, 600).