Marshall T. Rose, Mountain View, CA

Published March, 1996 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1996, 336 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-451659-1
$65.00

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The size and number of TCP/IP based networks has made their management problematic. The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), a suite of network management protocols or rules, has emerged as the leading solution to this problem. This revision of the leading selling guide to SNMP has been revised to reflect the latest changes to the SNMPv2 standard. Marshall Rose is the author of the SNMP standard and a leading contributor to this technology.

New topics covered include: maintenance functions, error reports, the simplified configuration model and security. communications professional who has to design and/or manage TCP/IP based networks. This group includes: network managers, network designers, and network operators.

1. Introduction.

The Need for Network Management. Different Devices. Different Administrations. Roadmap.

2. Concepts.

A Model. Managed Nodes. Network Management Stations. Network Management Protocol. Management Information. In Perspective. Data Representation. Modules. Types and Values. Macros. Object Identifiers. Does Simplicity Cost? Components of the Framework.

3. Information Model.

Structure of Management. Information Modules. Object Definitions. Object Syntax. Textual Conventions. Syntax Refinement. Object Groups. Identifying an Object. Notification Definitions. Revising a MIB Module. In Perspective. MIB Modules. The Different Kinds of MID Modules. The Philosophy of Writing a MIB Module. The Internet-Standard MIB. The SNMPv2 MIB. Conformance Statements. Module Compliance. Agent Capabilities. In Perspective. Importing Macro Definitions. Coexistence. Object Definitions. Notification Definitions. Conformance Statements. In Perspective.

4. Administrative Model.

Concepts. Authentication. Privacy. Authorization. Communities. Procedures. Originating a Message. Receiving a Message. Listening for Messages. The snmp Group.

5. Operational Model.

Protocol Interactions. Interactions. Retrieval Requests. Modification Requests. Manipulating Conceptual Rows. Trap Interactions. Manager-to-Manager Interactions. Transport Mappings. Transport Domains and Addresses. Serialization using the Basic Encoding Rules. Coexistence. The Mapping.

6. The Future.
Appendix A. Internet Standards and Documents.

Administrative RFCs. Core Protocol RFCs. Network Management RFCs. The Original Framework. The SNMPv2 Framework. MIB Modules. Miscellaneous RFCs. Historic RFCs. Network Management Assignments. Getting an Experimental Assignment. Getting an Enterprise Assignment. Contact Information.

Appendix B. Other Resources.

The Simple Times. Implementations. Beholder, The Next Generation (BTNG). CMU SNMP/SNMPv2. Fergie and Gobbler. Network Operation Center On-Line (NOCOL). Scotty. SMIC. snacc. snmptcl. Tricklet. OUT-snmp V2. 1WILMA. Automated MIB Services.

Appendix C. Network Management is Simple.

Introduction. Models and Architectures. The Internet-Standard Management Framework. Structure of Management Information. Management Information Base. Protocols and Mechanisms. Transport Mappings. Operations. Data Representation. Identifying Management Information. Traps. Conclusions. The Problems of the Real World. A Plea for Sanity.