September 2005
Beginner
462 pages
12h 56m
English
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Organization
Chapter 1, Introduction to SNMP and Network Management, provides a nontechnical overview of network management with SNMP. We introduce the different versions of SNMP, managers and agents, network management concepts, and change management techniques.
Chapter 2, SNMPv1 and SNMPv2, discusses the technical details of SNMP versions 1 and 2. We look at the Structure of Management Information (SMI) and the Management Information Base (MIB) and discuss how SNMP actually works—how management information is sent and received over the network.
Chapter 3, SNMPv3, discusses SNMP version 3, which is now a full standard that provides robust security for SNMP.
Chapter 4, NMS Architectures, helps you to think through strategies for deploying SNMP.
Chapter 5, Configuring Your NMS, provides a basic understanding of what to expect when installing NMS software by looking at two NMS packages, HP's OpenView and Castle Rock's SNMPc.
Chapter 6, Configuring SNMP Agents, describes how to configure several SNMP agents for Unix and Windows, including the Net-SNMP agent. To round out the chapter, we discuss how to configure the embedded agents on two network devices: the Cisco SNMP agent and the APC Symetra SNMP agent.
Chapter 7, Polling and Setting, shows how you can use command-line tools and Perl to gather (poll) SNMP information and change (set) the state of a managed device.
Chapter 8, Polling and Thresholds, discusses how to configure OpenView and SNMPc to gather SNMP information via polling. ...
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