Book B
SNMP Protocol Overview
Remote Annex 6300 Supplement to the Remote Annex Administrator's Guide for UNIX
Simple Network Management
T
his chapter describes the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) and the SNMP agent provided by the RA 6300. This chapter
includes the following sections:
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SNMP Protocol Overview.
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Setting up the RA 6300 for SNMP.
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Standard MIB Support.
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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
RA 6300.
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The SNMP protocol can send queries to the SNMP agents
located in each RA 6300.
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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.
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Management Information Bases (MIBs) located on the SNMP
Network Management Station describe the information that
comes from the agents.
Chapter 2
Protocol (SNMP)
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