Technicolor - Thomson SpeedTouchTM620 An Introduction to Snmp, Snmp in the SpeedTouch Overview

Chapter 10

SpeedTouch™ Monitoring

10.1 An Introduction to SNMP

Introduction The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely spread method for managing networks. Based on a client/server concept, the SNMP server (the SNMP manager) gets or sets the values of objects defined in a Management Information Base (MIB) kept by the SNMP client (the SNMP agent). In addition the SNMP agent is also able to autonomously initiate an action by sending a trap to the SNMP manager.

This section describes the SpeedTouch™ SNMP implementation and how to use it.

SNMP in the SpeedTouch™

Overview

SNMP has become the de-facto standard for network management. Especially the monitoring aspect has become important: network administrators want to be notified when things go wrong in their network. In addition, to prevent problems, they also want to be able to do network load and trend analysis.

SNMP allows the user to access data about the SpeedTouch™ as defined in several MIBs. This way the SpeedTouch™ can perfectly fit in a managed network, monitored by SNMP.

Depending on the type, the SpeedTouch™ supports SNMP V1or SNMP V1, V2 and V3 simultanseously.

This section covers the following topics:

Topic	See Page
Basic Concepts	135
MIBs Explained.	136

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