The SNMP management system requests informa- tion from a managed computer (called an SNMP agent) such as the amount of hard disk space available or the number of active sessions. The SNMP management system can also initiate a change to the configuration of an SNMP agent. However, this is rare because most clients have read-only access.

nAn SNMP agent.

The SNMP agent responds to SNMP management system requests for information. Any computer running SNMP agent software is an SNMP agent. The Windows 2000 SNMP service, which is agent software, responds to information requests from one or more management systems. The SNMP ser- vice can be configured to determine which statis- tics are tracked and which management systems are authorized to request information.

In general, SNMP agents do not originate mes- sages, but only respond to them. A trap message is the only agent-initiated SNMP communication. A trap is an alarm-triggering event on an agent, such as a system reboot or illegal access, which provides enhanced security.

Management hosts and agents belong to an SNMP community, which is a collection of hosts grouped together for administrative purposes. Defining communities provides security by allowing only management systems and agents within the same community to communicate.

SNMP Service Configuration

This feature opens the Windows 2000 Services window from which you can configure the SNMP service.

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