SNMP monitoring
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a wide-spread protocol used to retrieve the metrics in a client-server setting.
The nodes that are being monitored generally have an SNMP agent installed on them. They generally listen to UDP port 161. The SNMP server can then make requests to them for certain information.
The information that is being asked for is encoded in a series of numbers called the object identifier (OID). The OIDs are organized in a tree fashion for extensibility and ease of use. Since the OID is a tree, it is also traversed like one, which means you can request for all the entries under a certain branch, go to the next entry, go to previous entry, and so on. In order to see the OID tree, visit: http://www.oid-info.com/cgi-bin/display?tree=0 ...
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