Overview of Basic SNMP Building Blocks

About SNMP

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol that facilitates the exchange of management information between a network management system (NMS), agents, and managed devices. SNMP uses the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite.

There are three versions of SNMP:

SNMP Version 1 (SNMPv1)—The initial implementation of the SNMP protocol, which is described in RFC 1157 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1157).

SNMP Version 2 (SNMPv2)—An improved version of SNMPv1 that includes additional protocol operations. For the SNMPv2 Structure of Management Information (SMI), see RFC 1902 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1902).

SNMP Version 3 (SNMPv3)—SNMPv3 has yet to be standardized.

The case study in this guide describes how to create a dial NMS environment. To successfully manage the environment, you must be familiar with the SNMP feature set. The following NMS applications use SNMP to help manage the network devices in the case study:

UCD-SNMP

Multi-Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG)

HP OpenView (HPOV)

Cisco Works 2000 Resource Manager Essentials (CW2000 RME)

Basic Dial NMS Implementation Guide

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