Chapter 15

C o n f i g u r i n g S N M P

About SNMP and the Device Server Agent

This section introduces SNMP and network management in TCP/IP networks and it describes the device server agent. It discusses the following:

Network management components

SNMP agent

SNMP traps

MIB support of the device server agent

Support traps of the device server agent

Network Management Components

The TCP/IP network management architecture contains the following components:

Managed nodes such as host systems, routers, terminal and com- munications servers (such as device server) and other network devices

One or more network managers (also called network management stations), which are the points from which the network is managed

Agents that reside on managed nodes and retrieve management information and communicate this information to network managers

The network management protocol, SNMP, which governs the exchange of information between the nodes and stations

Management information, which is the database of information about managed objects. This database is called the management information base (MIB).

SNMP Management Agent

Each managed node contains at least one agent— a component that responds to requests from the network manager— that retrieves network management information from its node and notifies the manager when significant events occur.

SNMP Traps

A mechanism defined by SNMP is called a trap, which is a report or “alarm” from a managed node to an SNMP manager that a significant event has occurred.

MIB Support

The agent supports the following MIBs:

Read-write for MIB II (RFC 1213), which is an Internet-standard MIB, consisting of managed objects from the systems, interfaces, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, transmission, and SNMP group

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