SNMP / Simple Network Management Protocol for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Managing Networks to Easily Track Devices Hooked Up to the Internet"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol and uses Internet standards for managing devices on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. SNMP monitors such hardware and software as routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, modem racks, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)s, Unix and Windows servers and databases.

SNMP monitors the health of the network as a whole, enabling network administrators to detect problems even before they occur. It provides users with a simple set of operators to run networks remotely.

Begun in 1988 to manage IP devices, it looks for problems automatically and notifies network administrators of problems, actual and potential.

SNMP uses RMON Remote Network Monitoring.

SNMP has two entities:

Managers

Agents

Managers are NMS (Network Management Stations) -- devices that watch the network. Sometimes these NMS devices send polls to the agents to learn their status.

Agents are software entities that send traps to managers to alert the NMS of problems.

Through its technologies and software management tools, SNMP helps network administrators perform their jobs.

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