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 ...
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