September 2005
Beginner
462 pages
12h 56m
English
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What's New in This Edition
This second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded. It includes the following new features:
Chapter 1 includes coverage of the concepts behind network management and change management.
Chapter 2 provides packet traces of the various SNMP operations.
Chapter 3 provides coverage of SNMPv3. This chapter was an appendix in the first edition; it has been expanded to a full chapter.
SNMPc coverage has been expanded in Chapters 5 and 9.
Chapter 11 explains the use of scripts for a variety of tasks. This chapter has doubled in size to include many new scripts. You'll find scripts for service monitoring techniques for SMTP, POP3, HTTP, and DNS, a Perl-based SNMP agent, switch port control, usage of the Cisco Ping MIB, and a section on wireless access point (WAP) monitoring.
Chapter 13, new in this edition, discusses RRDtool and Cricket.
Chapter 14, also new in this edition, is devoted to showing how Java can be used to create SNMP applications.
Appendix E provides a brief overview of Net-SNMP's Perl module.
Appendix G provides details on the most commonly used open source tools for network management and monitoring.
Appendix H introduces the most commonly used network troubleshooting tools.
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