#469 Essential SNMP
Book notes - Essential SNMP by Douglas R. Mauro, Kevin J. Schmidt, Kevin Schmidt. First published July 18, 2001. 2nd Edition October 25, 2005.
Notes
Table of Contents
- 1: Introduction to SNMP and Network Management
- 1.2: The Concept of Network Management
- 1.3: Applying the Concepts of Network Management
- 1.4: Change Management
- 1.5: Getting More Information
- 2: SNMPV1 and SNMPv2
- 2.2: SNMP Communities
- 2.3: The Structure of Management Information
- 2.4: Extensions to the SMI in Version 2
- 2.5: A Closer Look at MIB-II
- 2.6: SNMP Operations
- 2.7: Host Management Revisited
- 2.8: Remote Monitoring Revisited
- 2.9: Reverse Engineering SNMP
- 3: SNMPv3
- 3.2: USM
- 3.3: VACM
- 3.4: SNMPV3 in the Real World
- 4: NMS Architectures
- 4.2: NMS Architectures
- 4.3: A Look Ahead
- 5: Configuring Your NMS
- 5.2: Castle Rock’s SNMPc Enterprise Edition
- 6: Configuring SNMP Agents
- 6.2: Security Concerns
- 6.3: Agent Configuration Walkthroughs
- 7: Polling and Setting
- 7.2: Retrieving Multiple MIB Values
- 7.3: Setting a MIB Value
- 7.4: Error Responses
- 8: Polling and Thresholds
- 8.2: External Polling
- 9: Traps
- 9.2: Receiving Traps
- 9.3: Sending Traps
- 10: Extensible SNMP Agents
- 10.2: SystemEDGE
- 10.3: OpenView’s Extensible Agent
- 11: Adapting SNMP to Fit Your Environment
- 11.2: Who’s Logging into My Machine? (I-Am-In)
- 11.3: Throw Core
- 11.4: Veritas Disk Check
- 11.5: Disk-Space Checker
- 11.6: Port Monitor
- 11.7: Service Monitoring
- 11.8: Pinging with Cisco
- 11.9: Simple SNMP Agent
- 11.10: Switch Port Control
- 11.11: Wireless Networking
- 11.12: SNMP: The Object-Oriented Way
- 11.13: Final Words
- 12: MRTG
- 12.2: Viewing Graphs
- 12.3: Graphing Other Objects
- 12.4: Other Data-Gathering Applications
- 12.5: Pitfalls
- 12.6: Getting Help
- 13: RRDtool and Cricket
- 13.2: Cricket
- 14: Java and SNMP
- 14.2: SNMP getnext
- 14.3: SNMP set
- 14.4: Sending Traps and Informs
- 14.5: Receiving Traps and Informs
- 14.6: Resources
- A: Using Input and Output Octets
- B: More on OpenView’s NNM
- B.2: Adding a Menu to NNM
- B.3: Profiles for Different Users
- B.4: Using NNM for Communications
- C: Net-SNMP Tools
- C.2: Common Command-Line Arguments
- C.3: Net-SNMP Command-Line Tools
- D: SNMP RFCs
- D.2: SMIv2 Data Definition Language
- D.3: SNMPv3 Protocol
- D.4: SNMP Agent Extensibility
- D.5: SMIv1 MIB Modules
- D.6: SMIv2 MIB Modules
- D.7: IANA-Maintained MIB Modules
- D.8: Related Documents
- E: SNMP Support for Perl
- E.2: Net-SNMP
- F: Network Management Software
- F.2: NMS Suites
- F.3: Element Managers (Vendor-Specific Management)
- F.4: Trend Analysis
- F.5: Supporting Software
- G: Open Source Monitoring Software
- G-2: Nagios
- G-3: JFFNMS
- G-4: OpenNMS
- G-5: NINO
- H: Network Troubleshooting Primer
- H-2: ipconfig and ifconfig
- H-3: arp
- H-4: netstat
- H-5: traceroute and tracert
- H-6: nslookup and dig
- H-7: whois
- H-8: Ethereal
Source Code
Example sources are maintained on https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9780596008406/
The git repo actually contains a zipped archive of the sources.
I’ve extracted locally to a folder called example_source_v2 as follows:
git clone https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9780596008406/
mkdir ./example_source_v2
tar zxvf 9780596008406/esnmp2-examples.tar.gz -C ././example_source_v2
rm -fR 9780596008406
Credits and References
- Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition
- Essential SNMP, 1st Edition