TCP/IP Guide

Chapter 65. TCP/IP INTERNET STANDARD MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK OVERVIEW

TCP/IP network management functions are most commonly associated with the key protocol responsible for implementing those functions: the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Many people have heard of SNMP, and it is common for SNMP to be considered "the" way that network management is performed in TCP/IP. This is true to an extent, but is really an oversimplification. The actual SNMP protocol is only one part of a higher-level network management strategy called the Internet Standard Management Framework. In order to really understand how SNMP works, you need to first have ...