Essential SNMP - Softcover

Douglas R Mauro Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596000200 ISBN 13: 9780596000202

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2001

Synopsis

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet-standard protocol for managing hosts on an IP network. Essential SNMP is a practical introduction to SNMP for system administrators. It starts with the basics: what SNMP is and how it works, along with some technical background to help administrators use it effectively--such things as how SNMP works and what OIDs, MIBs, community strings, and traps are. But the main focus of the book is on practical network administration: how to configure SNMP agents and network management stations, how to use SNMP to retrieve and modify variables on network devices, how to configure management software to react to traps sent by managed devices. Essential SNMP discusses a range of commercial and open source packages, including HP's OpenView, Castle Rock's SNMPc, the Net-SNMP tools, Simon Leinen's Perl SNMP support, and MRTG. The book covers all SNMP versions through SNMPv3.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas R. Mauro lives outside of Rochester, New York, with his wife Amy, daughter Kari, and cat Megabyte (a.k.a. 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® MINDSTORMS™ Robotics Invention System, where he uses Dave Baum's Not Quite C (NQC) for Linux to control his robotic creations.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596000200
• ISBN 13: 9780596000202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300