CMIP Vs. SNMP : Network Management
Imagine yourself as a network administrator, responsible for a 2000 user
network. This network reaches from California to New York, and some branches
over seas. In this situation, anything can, and usually does go wrong, but it
would be your job as a system administrator to resolve the problem with it
arises as quickly as possible. The last thing you would want is for your boss
to call you up, asking why you haven't done anything to fix the 2 major systems
that have been down for several hours. How do you explain to him that you
didn't even know about it? Would you even want to tell him that? So now,
picture yourself in the same situation, only this time, you were using a ...
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indicating that they are experiencing
problems. Tagging the two systems, you press enter, and with a flash, the screen
displays all the statitics of the two systems, including anything they might
have in common causing the problem. Seeing that both systems are linked to the
same card of a network switch, you pick up the phone and give that branch office
a call, notifying them not only that they have a problem, but how to fix it as
well.
Early in the days of computers, a central computer (called a mainframe) was
connected to a bunch of dumb terminals using a standard copper wire. Not much
thought was put into how this was done because there was only one way to do it:
they were either connected, or they weren't. Figure 1 shows a diagram of these
early systems. If something went wrong with this type of system, it was fairly
easy to troubleshoot, the blame almost always fell on the mainframe system.
Shortly after the introduction of Personal Computers (PC), came Local ...
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network administrators should use.
SNMP is a protocol that enables a management station to configure, monitor,
and receive trap (alarm) messages from network devices. (Feit, 12). It is
formally specified in a series of related Request for Comment (RFC) documents,
listed here.
RFC 1089 - SNMP over Ethernet
RFC 1140 - IAB Official Protocol Standards
RFC 1147 - Tools for Monitoring and Debugging TCP/IP
Internets and Interconnected Devices
[superceded by RFC 1470]
RFC 1155 - Structure and Identification of Management
Information for TCP/IP based internets.
RFC 1156 - Management Information Base ...
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