Lecture TCP-IP protocol suite - Chapter 23: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

The chapter has several objectives: To discuss SNMP as a framework for managing devices in an internet using the TCP/IP protocol suite; to define a manager as a host that runs SNMP client and any agents as a router or host that runs a server program; discuss SMI and MIB, which are used by SNMP; to show how SMI names objects, defines the type of data, and encodes data;...