Simple Network Management Protocol (Snmp); Snmp Protocol Overview - Bay Networks 6300 Supplement Manual

Supplement to the remote annex administrator’s guide for unix

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Remote Annex 6300 Supplement to the Remote Annex Administrator's Guide for UNIX

Simple Network Management

his chapter describes the Simple Network Management Protocol

(SNMP) and the SNMP agent provided by the RA 6300. This chapter

includes the following sections:

SNMP Protocol Overview.

Setting up the RA 6300 for SNMP.

Standard MIB Support.

Parameters vs. Private Enterprise MIB.

SNMP is a heavily used management protocol. It operates over the User

Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite.

SNMP provides an easier and more efﬁcient means of managing the

The SNMP protocol can send queries to the SNMP agents

located in each RA 6300.

Each SNMP agent collects information about its RA 6300 and

provides that information to the Network Management Station

running the RA 6300. The agent process acts as a server in a

typical client-server model.

Management Information Bases (MIBs) located on the SNMP

Network Management Station describe the information that

comes from the agents.

Protocol (SNMP)