Solaris™ 8 Network Administrator Certification Training Guide

INTRODUCTION

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used to monitor and manage hosts on a network from local or remote locations. Information about a host is collected by the SNMP agent running on that host. An SNMP management station can send a request to an SNMP agent running on a host to provide management information using an authentication method. An SNMP agent also can convey important information asynchronously to a preconfigured SNMP management station using a mechanism known as traps. Trap destination is usually configured on each host running an SNMP agent.

SNMP is actually a set of rules and regulations that govern communication between the SNMP agent the and SNMP management station. In addition to requesting information ...