Essential SNMP: Help for System and Network Administrators (Paperback, 2)

Preface

1. What Is SNMP?
Network Management and Monitoring
RFCs and SNMP Versions
Managers and Agents
The Structure of Management Information and MIBS
Host Management
A Brief Introduction to Remote Monitoring (RMON)
Getting More Information

2. A Closer Look at SNMP
SNMP and UDP
SNMP Communities
The Structure of Management Information
Extensions to the SMI in Version 2
A Closer Look at MIB-II
SNMP Operations
Host Management Revisited
Remote Monitoring Revisited

3. NMS Architectures
Hardware Considerations
NMS Architectures
A Look Ahead

4. SNMP-Compatible Hardware
What Does SNMP-Compatible Really Mean?
Is My Device SNMP-Compatible?
Upgrading Your Hardware
In the End
A Look Ahead

5. Network-Management Software
SNMP Agents
NMS Suites
Element Managers (Vendor-Specific Management)
Trend Analysis
Supporting Software

6. Configuring Your NMS
HP's OpenView Network Node Manager
Castle Rock's SNMPc Enterprise Edition

7. Configuring SNMP Agents
Parameter Settings
Security Concerns
Agent Configuration Walkthroughs

8. Polling and Setting
Retrieving a Single MIB Value
Retrieving Multiple MIB Values
Setting a MIB Value
Error Responses

9. Polling and Thresholds
Internal Polling
External Polling

10. Traps
Understanding Traps
Receiving Traps
Sending Traps

11. Extensible SNMP Agents
Net-SNMP
SystemEDGE
OpenView's Extensible Agent

12. Adapting SNMP to Fit Your Environment
General Trap-Generation Program
Who's Logging into My Machine? (I-Am-in)
Throw Core
Veritas Disk Check
Disk-Space Checker
Port Monitor

13. MRTG
Using MRTG
Viewing Graphs
Graphing Other Objects
Other Data-Gathering Applications
Pitfalls
Getting Help

A. Using Input and Output Octets

B. More on OpenView's NNM

C. Net-SNMP Tools

D. SNMP RFCs

E. SNMP Support for Perl

F. SNMPv3

Index