May 01, 1997 08:01 PM

Understanding SNMP

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Karen Watterson
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a vendor-independent protocol for transporting management data between networked devices and applications and the systems that control and monitor those devices and applications. The Internet community first developed SNMP in 1987 to augment existing TCP/IP network management tools (e.g., ping). SNMP is based on Internet standards. Several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFCs) define SNMP (notably RFC 1157). Because of SNM...

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your information is helpfull.can u mail me with more information regarding snmp manager.

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