Replicate SNMP settings

[Bob_379]

I suspect something was pushed in my environment which changed the SNMP security settings on almost 300 of my windows servers from "accept SNMP packets from any host" to "specific host" of 127.0.0.1 and 0. I've tried replicating the change from a known good configuration and SIM reports a successful status but when I check the server nothing has changed. Is this something I can change from SIM or will we need to manually change each one?

Thanks
Bob

[Stefan Laemmer]

Bob,
we've seen this happen on our servers too It appears to be a GPO Policy in our AD We tried to just delete the key (Permitted Managers) but it reverts back to localhost and 0. Now we are running a GPO to fill the Permitted Managers with all our SIM Server names and localhost (127.0.0.1).
You'll need to change that either through a Policy (in AD) or manually on all servers.

[Aravindh Rajaram]

You can change this using this setting through the Replicate Agent settings task if the target is accepting the packets from the CMS. :) Unfortunately, all your targets accepts packets from 127.0.0.1 which is the localhost. So, Replicate Agent settings will not work for you.

You can make use of Custom commands to solve your problem if you know scripting.

[Aravindh Rajaram]

I may be wrong with my opinion in the previous post. Just got to know that the request is sent via HTTPS and from there on SNMP takes over on the target.