Chapter 66. TCP/IP STRUCTURE OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION (SMI) AND MANAGEMENT INFORMATION BASES (MIBS)

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The Internet Standard Management Framework defines three major components that describe how devices can be managed on a TCP/IP internetwork. One of these, the actual Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is relatively well known, but is only part of the overall picture. SNMP describes how information is exchanged between SNMP entities, but two other components are equally important, because they describe the information itself.

In this chapter, I describe these two important supporting elements of the TCP/IP Internet Standard Management Framework: ...

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