Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide: Field-Tested Solutions for Everyday Problems, Second Editon

Appendix F. Simple Network Management Protocol

This appendix provides a very basic description of the SNMP protocol. The description includes details about the three versions of SNMP. An example of how an SNMP packet appears on a network, and several examples of how SNMP data may be viewed in different network management applications are shown.

SNMP Operation

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is based on two entities: the manager and the agent. The manager software is typically implemented as a graphical user interface with large databases of saved responses. The agent is typically software residing on infrastructure networking equipment or something attached to the network, such as a file server. The most common use is to have the ...