
Essential SNMP
Help for System and Network Administrators
O'Reilly (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 25. October 2005
Book
460 pages
978-0-596-00840-6 (ISBN)
Description
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) provides a "simple" set of operations that allows you to more easily monitor and manage network devices like routers, switches, servers, printers, and more. The information you can monitor with SNMP is wide-ranging--from standard items, like the amount of traffic flowing into an interface, to far more esoteric items, like the air temperature inside a router. In spite of its name, though, SNMP is not especially simple to learn.
O'Reilly has answered the call for help with a practical introduction that shows how to install, configure, and manage SNMP. Written for network and system administrators, the book introduces the basics of SNMP and then offers a technical background on how to use it effectively. Essential SNMP explores both commercial and open source packages, and elements like OIDs, MIBs, community strings, and traps are covered in depth. The book contains five new chapters and various updates throughout. Other new topics include:
* Expanded coverage of SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3
* Expanded coverage of SNMPc
* The concepts behind network management and change management
* RRDTool and Cricket
* The use of scripts for a variety of tasks
* How Java can be used to create SNMP applications
* Net-SNMP's Perl module
The bulk of the book is devoted to discussing, with real examples, how to use SNMP for system and network administration tasks. Administrators will come away with ideas for writing scripts to help them manage their networks, create managed objects, and extend the operation of SNMP agents.
Once demystified, SNMP is much more accessible. If you're looking for a way to more easily manage your network, look no further than Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition.
Reviews / Votes
"It is difficult to find fault with the content of the book... This is a solid textbook in the O'Reilly mould. The only criticism I have is an unfair one, I had difficulty staying awake whilst reviewing it, I find SNMP just about the driest subject in IT but this book will enable you to get though all the tedious configuration as fast as possible allowing you to move onto more interesting things that much sooner." - Greg Matthews, news@UK, June 2006More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-596-00840-6 (9780596008406)
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Persons
Douglas R. Mauro lives outside of Rochester, New York, with his wife Amy, daughter Kari, and cat Megabyte (aka Meg). He received a bachelor's degree at the University of Albany, New York, and worked as a system administrator for several years before becoming a project engineer with Sun Microsystems, Inc. In addition to his consulting duties with Sun, he authors their internal OneStop Sun Management Center page and has published several InfoDocs with them.Computers are not just a way of life for Douglas, but a profound passion. He feels extremely fortunate to be working in a field he truly loves. Kevin J. Schmidt lives in Decatur, Georgia. He shares a home with his significant other, Callie, their loving cats, Chester and Twiggy, two Peruvian guinea pigs, two Litoria species White's tree frogs, and several poison dart frogs. Originally from Pensacola, Florida, Kevin spent several years studying computer science at the University of West Florida. In late 1996 he was recruited by MindSpring Enterprises (now known as Earthlink, Inc.), a national ISP based in Atlanta, and subsequently left school to pursue his career. He spent four years in network management and was the senior network management architect for Earthlink. He left Earthlink to work at Netrail, a tier-1 Internet backbone provider. While at Netrail, Kevin was in charge of the company's network management architecture. These days Kevin works as a software engineer for Guarded.Net, a network security start-up in Atlanta. Kevin's first computer was a Commodore 64. He began running Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) at age 11 and later became interested in computer networking in general. His other computing interests include Linux, MySQL, and programming in C, Java, Perl, and PHP. Kevin will soon have his private pilot's license and plans to become instrument and multiengine rated soon thereafter. He recently discovered the LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS' Robotics Invention System, where he uses Dave Baum's Not Quite C (NQC) for Linux to control his robotic creations.
Content
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to SNMP and Network Management
- Chapter 2: SNMPv1 and SNMPv2
- Chapter 3: SNMPv3
- Chapter 4: NMS Architectures
- Chapter 5: Configuring Your NMS
- Chapter 6: Configuring SNMP Agents
- Chapter 7: Polling and Setting
- Chapter 8: Polling and Thresholds
- Chapter 9: Traps
- Chapter 10: Extensible SNMP Agents
- Chapter 11: Adapting SNMP to Fit Your Environment
- Chapter 12: MRTG
- Chapter 13: RRDtool and Cricket
- Chapter 14: Java and SNMP
- Appendix A: Using Input and Output Octets
- Appendix B: More on OpenView's NNM
- Appendix C: Net-SNMP Tools
- Appendix D: SNMP RFCs
- Appendix E: SNMP Support for Perl
- Appendix F: Network Management Software
- Appendix G: Open Source Monitoring Software
- Appendix H: Network Troubleshooting Primer
- Chapter 15: About the Authors
- Colophon