Annex Manager And Snmp; Snmp Protocol Overview - Bay Networks Manager User Manual

SNMP Protocol Overview

Annex Manager and SNMP

T
his chapter contains a description of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) and Annex Manager. It includes:
• SNMP Protocol Overview
• Setting up the Annex for SNMP
• Standard MIB Support
SNMP is a heavily used management protocol. It operates over the User
Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
Annex Manager provides the user interface that enables Network
Managers to access Annexes and their information. Annex Manager uses:
• The SNMP protocol to send queries to the agents located in
each Annex.
• Agents located on the Annexes. Each agent collects
information about its Annex and provides that information to
the Network Management Station running Annex Manager.
• Management Information Bases (MIBs) located on the SNMP
Network Management Station. MIBs describe the information
that comes from the agents.
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