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MSAP2000 AAMS User's Guide
18.3 About SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol is a protocol used for exchanging
management information between network switches. SNMP is a member of
TCP/IP protocol suite. A manager station can manage and monitor the
MSAP2000 AAMS through the network via SNMP version one (SNMPv1) and/or
SNMP version 2c. The next figure illustrates an SNMP management operation.
SNMP is only available if TCP/IP is configured.
Figure 56
An SNMP managed network consists of two main components: agents and a
manager.
An agent is a management software module that resides in a managed switch
(the MSAP2000 AAMS). An agent translates the local management information
from the managed switch into a form compatible with SNMP. The manager is the
console through which network administrators perform network management
functions. It executes applications that control and monitor managed devices.
The managed devices contain object variables/managed objects that define each
piece of information to be collected about a switch. Examples of variables include
such as number of packets received, node port status etc. A Management
Information Base (MIB) is a collection of managed objects. SNMP allows a
manager and agents to communicate for the purpose of accessing these objects.
SNMP Management Model
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