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Chapter 19
19.1 Overview of SNMP on the FP Web-Server
General Information on SNMP
FP Web-Server implementation
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a UDP-based network
protocol. It is used mostly in network management systems to monitor
network-attached devices for conditions that warrant administrative
attention. In typical SNMP use, one or more administrative computers
called managers have the task of monitoring or managing a group of hosts
or devices on a computer network. Each managed system executes, at all
times, a software component called an agent which reports information via
SNMP to the manager.
Essentially, SNMP agents expose management data on the managed
systems as variables. The protocol also permits active management tasks,
such as modifying and applying a new configuration through remote
modification of these variables. The variables accessible via SNMP are
organized in hierarchies. These hierarchies and other metadata (such as
type and description of the variable) are described by Management
Information Bases (MIBs).
The SNMP agent allows the SNMP manager to transfer data to and from FP
Web-Servers via Ethernet using SNMP version 1 and version 2c protocol.
The FP Web-Server serves as an SNMP agent.
SNMP version 3 is currently not supported.
Commercially available SNMP manager tools can be configured to read
values specified by their SNMP Object Identifiers (OIDs), which are defined
in the MIB file (Management Information Base) of the target device. The
SNMP functions
SNMP functions
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