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Using SNMP SNMP Standards: Network Administrators

SNMP is a standard network management protocol that allows network administrators to monitor network availability, performance, and error rates. It uses a Management Information Base (MIB) to store attributes of network devices, which management software can read and write to using SNMP commands to monitor or initiate actions on devices. The original SNMP version had security flaws, leading to improved versions SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 that aimed to provide a common standard for secure network management.

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Using SNMP SNMP Standards: Network Administrators

SNMP is a standard network management protocol that allows network administrators to monitor network availability, performance, and error rates. It uses a Management Information Base (MIB) to store attributes of network devices, which management software can read and write to using SNMP commands to monitor or initiate actions on devices. The original SNMP version had security flaws, leading to improved versions SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 that aimed to provide a common standard for secure network management.

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Definition: SNMP is a standard TCP/IP protocol for


network management. Network administrators use
SNMP to monitor and map network availability,
performance, and error rates.

implemented in management software by defining a


particular MIB attribute and issuing an SNMP Set
from the manager software that writes a "reboot"
value into that attribute.

Using SNMP

SNMP Standards

To work with SNMP, network devices utilize a


distributed data store called the Management
Information Base (MIB). All SNMP compliant
devices contain a MIB which supplies the pertinent
attributes of a device. Some attributes are fixed
(hard-coded) in the MIB while others are dynamic
values calculated by agent software running on the
device.

Developed in the 1980s, the original version of


SNMP, SNMPv1 , lacked some important
functionality and only worked with TCP/IP
networks. An improved specification for SNMP,
SNMPv2 , was developed in 1992. SNMP suffers
from various flaws of its own, so many networks
remained on the SNMPv1 standard while others
adopted SNMPv2.

Enterprise network management software, such as


Tivoli and HP OpenView, uses SNMP commands to
read and write data in each device MIB. 'Get'
commands typically retrieve data values, while 'Set'
commands typically initiate some action on the
device. For example, a system reboot script is often

More recently, the SNMPv3 specification was


completed in an attempt to address the problems
with SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 and allow
administrators to move to one common SNMP
standard.

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