Configuring the Collection Station
The SNMP daemon's read/write community string must be explicitly configured in the /etc/snmpd.conf file, as shown here:
get-community-name: public set-community-name: secret
Choose your own community string for the set-community-name, but please—leave the get-community-name as public. Also, make sure you don’t disturb the file permissions (it should be 400 and owned by root). You should stop and restart the /usr/sbin/snmpdm daemon so that it reads the changes you made to the /etc/snmpd.conf file.
The topology filter, which applies to all database objects exported from the collection station, must be configured. The file $OV_CONF/ C/filters should contain an entry which contains:
NetBackbone "Networks and ...
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