Chapter 6. Management Information: What Management Conversations Are All About
When a manager and an agent communicate, they ultimately “talk” about the device that is being managed. (Actually, this is not entirely correct—as you know by now, they could, for example, also talk about a service. For the purposes of the discussion here, however, we assume that the managed entity that is being represented by the agent is indeed a device.) For example, the manager might ask the agent how many packets have been sent over one of the device’s interfaces, or the agent might send an alarm telling the manager that it has just detected a line error on one of the device’s ports. Everything that managers need to know about the entity that is being managed constitutes ...
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