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SNMP

SNMP allows network devices to be monitored and managed. It has two main components: managers, which control and monitor agents like routers. Agents store variables that managers can access, like packet counts, to determine if a router is congested. Managers can request information from agents, force agents to perform functions, and receive warnings from agents about issues. Management involves SNMP, SMI, and MIB working together, with SMI defining data types and MIB being the collection of objects an agent can be managed.

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SNMP

SNMP allows network devices to be monitored and managed. It has two main components: managers, which control and monitor agents like routers. Agents store variables that managers can access, like packet counts, to determine if a router is congested. Managers can request information from agents, force agents to perform functions, and receive warnings from agents about issues. Management involves SNMP, SMI, and MIB working together, with SMI defining data types and MIB being the collection of objects an agent can be managed.

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SNMP

 SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol.


 SNMP is a framework used for managing devices on the internet.
 It provides a set of operations for monitoring and managing the internet.

SNMP Concept

 SNMP has two components Manager and agent.


 The manager is a host that controls and monitors a set of agents such as routers.
 It is an application layer protocol in which a few manager stations can handle a set of
agents.
 The protocol designed at the application level can monitor the devices made by different
manufacturers and installed on different physical networks.
 It is used in a heterogeneous network made of different LANs and WANs connected by
routers or gateways.

Managers & Agents


 A manager is a host that runs the SNMP client program while the agent is a router that
runs the SNMP server program.
 Management of the internet is achieved through simple interaction between a manager
and agent.
 The agent is used to keep the information in a database while the manager is used to
access the values in the database. For example, a router can store the appropriate
variables such as a number of packets received and forwarded while the manager can
compare these variables to determine whether the router is congested or not.
 Agents can also contribute to the management process. A server program on the agent
checks the environment, if something goes wrong, the agent sends a warning message to
the manager.

Management with SNMP has three basic ideas:


 A manager checks the agent by requesting the information that reflects the behavior of
the agent.
 A manager also forces the agent to perform a certain function by resetting values in the
agent database.
 An agent also contributes to the management process by warning the manager regarding
an unusual condition.

Management Components
 Management is not achieved only through the SNMP protocol but also the use of other
protocols that can cooperate with the SNMP protocol. Management is achieved through
the use of the other two protocols: SMI (Structure of management information) and
MIB(management information base).
 Management is a combination of SMI, MIB, and SNMP. All these three protocols such as
abstract syntax notation 1 (ASN.1) and basic encoding rules (BER).

SMI

The SMI (Structure of management information) is a component used in network management.


Its main function is to define the type of data that can be stored in an object and to show how to
encode the data for the transmission over a network.

MIB
 The MIB (Management information base) is a second component for the network
management.
 Each agent has its own MIB, which is a collection of all the objects that the manager can
manage. MIB is categorized into eight groups: system, interface, address translation, ip,
icmp, tcp, udp, and egp. These groups are under the mib object.

SNMP

SNMP defines five types of messages: GetRequest, GetNextRequest, SetRequest, GetResponse,


and Trap.
GetRequest: The GetRequest message is sent from a manager (client) to the agent (server) to
retrieve the value of a variable.

GetNextRequest: The GetNextRequest message is sent from the manager to agent to retrieve
the value of a variable. This type of message is used to retrieve the values of the entries in a
table. If the manager does not know the indexes of the entries, then it will not be able to retrieve
the values. In such situations, GetNextRequest message is used to define an object.

GetResponse: The GetResponse message is sent from an agent to the manager in response to the
GetRequest and GetNextRequest message. This message contains the value of a variable
requested by the manager.

SetRequest: The SetRequest message is sent from a manager to the agent to set a value in a
variable.

Trap: The Trap message is sent from an agent to the manager to report an event. For example, if
the agent is rebooted, then it informs the manager as well as sends the time of rebooting.

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