Snmp; Monitoring Tools; Monitoring With Aix Netview/6000 - InfoPrint 6500 Series User Manual

General Information About MIBs
For further information on SNMP and MIB, refer to the following:
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Getting The Latest MIB Information
To obtain the latest copy of these and other RFCs, FTP the files from one of
the following two sources:
Internet:
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts
World Wide Web:
http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/lid-abstracts.html

SNMP

SNMP is the protocol used to communicate between manager and agent.
Managers request information, usually through automated polling at specified
intervals, and agents respond. Though used primarily on TCP/IP networks,
SNMP can be implemented on other protocols, for example, IPX.
SNMP is a standard by which a network manager can get statistics and
configuration information from the ethernet interfaces and other devices on
the network. This is done through a Network Management Station (NMS)
such as NetView

Monitoring Tools

Many tools can be used to monitor printers with SNMP agents. One of these
tools is NetView. There are also other MIB browsers which are not described
here.

Monitoring With AIX NetView/6000

The AIX NetView/6000 program can manage any IP-addressable device with
an SNMP agent.
NetView/6000 can be used to set a network topology, monitor a network,
diagnose problems, and measure network performance.
Through its MIB Browser, information about the resources affecting an event
(such as an alarm) can be obtained.
RFC 1155 — Structure and Identification of Management Information for
TCP/IP-based Internets (SMI)
RFC 1156 — Management Information Base for Management of TCP/IP
Internets (MIB)
RFC 1157 — A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
The Simple Book: An Introduction to Management of
TCP/IP-based Internets
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. Currently only SNMP version 1 protocol is supported.
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