Book description
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) provides a "simple" set of operations that allows you to more easily monitor and manage network devices like routers, switches, servers, printers, and more. The information you can monitor with SNMP is wide-ranging--from standard items, like the amount of traffic flowing into an interface, to far more esoteric items, like the air temperature inside a router. In spite of its name, though, SNMP is not especially simple to learn.
O'Reilly has answered the call for help with a practical introduction that shows how to install, configure, and manage SNMP. Written for network and system administrators, the book introduces the basics of SNMP and then offers a technical background on how to use it effectively. Essential SNMP explores both commercial and open source packages, and elements like OIDs, MIBs, community strings, and traps are covered in depth. The book contains five new chapters and various updates throughout. Other new topics include:
- Expanded coverage of SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3
- Expanded coverage of SNMPc
- The concepts behind network management and change management
- RRDTool and Cricket
- The use of scripts for a variety of tasks
- How Java can be used to create SNMP applications
- Net-SNMP's Perl module
The bulk of the book is devoted to discussing, with real examples, how to use SNMP for system and network administration tasks. Administrators will come away with ideas for writing scripts to help them manage their networks, create managed objects, and extend the operation of SNMP agents.
Once demystified, SNMP is much more accessible. If you're looking for a way to more easily manage your network, look no further than Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition.
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Table of contents
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Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition
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- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
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1. Introduction to SNMP and Network Management
- 1.1. What Is SNMP?
- 1.2. The Concept of Network Management
- 1.3. Applying the Concepts of Network Management
- 1.4. Change Management
- 1.5. Getting More Information
- 2. SNMPv1 and SNMPv2
- 3. SNMPv3
- 4. NMS Architectures
- 5. Configuring Your NMS
- 6. Configuring SNMP Agents
- 7. Polling and Setting
- 8. Polling and Thresholds
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9. Traps
- 9.1. Understanding Traps
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9.2. Receiving Traps
- 9.2.1. HP OpenView
- 9.2.2. Using NNM's Event Configurations
- 9.2.3. Custom Event Categories
- 9.2.4. The Event Categories Display
- 9.2.5. The Alarms Browser
- 9.2.6. Creating Events Within OpenView
- 9.2.7. Monitoring Traps with Perl
- 9.2.8. Using the Network Computing Technologies Trap Receiver
- 9.2.9. Receiving Traps Using Net-SNMP
- 9.3. Sending Traps
- 10. Extensible SNMP Agents
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11. Adapting SNMP to Fit Your Environment
- 11.1. General Trap-Generation Program
- 11.2. Who's Logging into My Machine? (I-Am-In)
- 11.3. Throw Core
- 11.4. Veritas Disk Check
- 11.5. Disk-Space Checker
- 11.6. Port Monitor
- 11.7. Service Monitoring
- 11.8. Pinging with Cisco
- 11.9. Simple SNMP Agent
- 11.10. Switch Port Control
- 11.11. Wireless Networking
- 11.12. SNMP: The Object-Oriented Way
- 11.13. Final Words
- 12. MRTG
- 13. RRDtool and Cricket
- 14. Java and SNMP
- A. Using Input and Output Octets
- B. More on OpenView's NNM
- C. Net-SNMP Tools
- D. SNMP RFCs
- E. SNMP Support for Perl
- F. Network Management Software
- G. Open Source Monitoring Software
- H. Network Troubleshooting Primer
- 15. About the Authors
- About the Authors
- Colophon
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Product information
- Title: Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2005
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596552770
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