Solaris™ 8 Network Administrator Certification Training Guide

SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (SNMP)

Since networks started growing larger and larger, network management has become a much more complex task. Practically, it is not possible to monitor and keep an eye on each and every aspect of network management in large networks. Since the birth of the Internet, the need for a reliable simple framework for network management has always existed. SNMP was approved as a standard in 1988, and almost all vendors use SNMP in their products now. The Simple Network Management Protocol is a collection of management station(s), network elements, and rules that govern communication between these two. The network elements run a piece of software, which is called the SNMP agent. Network elements may be simple hosts, ...